Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Feli offered: Subject: Re: [Leica] 1Ds Mk II at ISO 3200 & 20D > That said, Ted be aware that if you are shooting under warm tungsten > lights, the Canon will balance the > scene very warm, to the point that it may look like someone stuck a CTO > gel on your front element.<,, Hi Feli, I took your words of wisdom to heart and gave it a try! Shot some frames in our family room, all tungsten bulbs in various lamps. And guess what? ;-) You are right! :-) I had shot in there before, but never printed one to see how it would actually look as a colour print. It's not bad because the room is a Tudor style with half wooden walls and beams, with the upper half of the walls and ceiling white. So on the camera screen they looked OK. But to print, it's quite different! :-) Slightly warmer than I expected. However, now I have to figure out how to use white balance if sometime I need a better colour balanced look. Although I imagine I could also correct it using PhotoShop? In the high school gymnasiums the auto-white balance seems to keep the colours much closer to normal looking. But in these locations it's a mixture of lights and not all tungsten so I'm sure that makes a major difference for colour balancing. And with these when you click "auto colour" in PS everything cleans right out to white backgrounds as it should look with excellent skin tones. So obviously under tungsten light it definitely stays on the warm side. Thanks for pointing this out. :-) See what I mean about this good ol' LUG? Man you always learn something every day! :-) ted > For some reason Canon cameras blow at white balancing 5000K light and it > can be a problem if your > job demands color accuracy > > So, if you notice this, that's the reason why it's happening. Until then > have fun shooting. > 8-) > > Feli > > On Feb 7, 2005, at 5:53 PM, Ted Grant wrote: > >> Slobodan Dimitrov asked: >> Subject: Re: [Leica] 1Ds Mk II at ISO 3200 & 20D >> >> >>> So you don't find the factory setting too red? >>> My sampling is 8 other users, who share my experience.<<< >> >> Hi Slobodan, >> >> Maybe I got lucky or something, but honestly this camera works like a >> dream as it came out of the box and no one has had their hands on it to >> fiddle anything. >> >> And I put the instruction book away as it became way beyond me with all >> the words and thingies to push to do what appeared eighty thousand >> settings. ;-) >> >> So KISS it, all auto everything. ;-) >> >> ted >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > ________________________________________________________ > feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 www.elanphotos.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >