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

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 10:30 AM -0800 2/8/05, Feli wrote:
>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

A little while ago I had to produce a pdf fairly quickly of a book 
that had been printed in the  20's. The paper was yellowed, but 
consistent. Due to the fact that I had the book only a few hours, and 
I needed to produce the pdf the next day, I shot jpeg and adjusted 
the parameters as closely as I could to cut down on post processing.

I shot a frame of one of the blank endpapers, set the white balance 
to that, boosted the contrast setting in the camera, increased the 
sharpness setting slightly and shot away. A 350 page book done in 3 
hours, with all the pages the same, neutral tone.

If I had wanted to balance purely for the light, I would have used a 
Kodak grey card by preference, as I have some that I know are 
neutral. The average white or black (or grey) card may or may not 
actually be neutral. 'Black' paper can have various tones, and can 
seriously throw off colour balance. White doesn't seem to have as 
great variability, in my experience.

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