[Leica] 1Ds Mk II at ISO 3200 & 20D SURPRISE SURPRISE! ;-)

[feli2 at earthlink.net (Feli)]

And there you go.

A RAW file simply is a unprocessed dump of the data off the sensor. 
What ever it captured is in there and you adjust it to
your needs.

But do you think that using a gray card is the way to go to balance for 
shooting jpegs?

feli


On Feb 8, 2005, at 10:22 AM, Henning Wulff wrote:
>
> The whole thing is very simple. If you shoot RAW, you set your colour 
> temperature and green/magenta balance when you import your shot into 
> Photoshop. RAW files contain the same info whether you set your camera 
> on AWB, daylight or tungsten or whatever. The latter settings only tag 
> the RAW file for initial viewing in the Camera RAW window, but don't 
> change the file data. So shoot RAW, and use the little sliders in PS 
> Camera RAW to adjust your colour balance (and expoosure, if necessary) 
> as you bring it into the main editing window of Photoshop.
>
> You only need to set the colour balance accurately if you shoot jpeg. 
> There, if the picture has been shot with incorrect colour balance set, 
> you _lose_ information when you try to correct it, and it is a lot 
> harder to correct, with cross-over becoming a possibility under some 
> circumstances. So if you are taking a lot of shots under a certain 
> type of lighting in jpeg, you take a frame-filling picture of a 
> neutral (white, 18% grey, black, whatever) surface and tell the camera 
> to use that as a reference. It takes a couple of button pushes, but 
> once you've done it, it takes about 15 seconds.
>
> But mainly, shoot RAW!
>
>

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