[Leica] M9 color balance

[kennybod at mac.com (Kenneth Frazier)]

On Aug 14, 2011, at 3:14 AM, Herbert Kanner wrote:

> And, I'm convinced that there are occasions when there are adjustments 
> that can be made in Lightroom or Aperture to raw that cannot be made, or 
> at least made as well, to jpegs. Certainly that has been emphasized in 
> more than one book on Lightroom.


Herb, I agree, and I suspect, based on my own recent experience, that the 
range of adjustments that can be made in Lightroom (haven't used Aperture), 
is much wider than most of us take advantage of.  (I'm really speaking only 
for myself, obviously.)

As I may have mentioned in one of my posts over the past week or so, while 
on leave this summer, I had scheduled a one-on-one tutorial with a 
professional photog instructor and photographer and designer.  She calls 
herself a "Lightroom Evangelist," and I was amazed at what I learned from 
her in just a few hours.

More to your point, she demonstrated on a number of my raw images the very 
wide range of useful adjustments that can be made in LR, and I would 
emphasize "useful."  We were working with both M9 and 7D raw files.

Even more to the point of white balance, she pointed out what most of us 
have learned, that reds and greens are highly saturated in raw files and 
almost always require adjustment in LR, Aperture, PS, etc.   That saturation 
CAN be compensated for with in-camera settings, but her advice was to keep 
the shooting settings as simple as possible, "always" shoot on manual, 
adjust ISO, aperture, and shutter speed on the fly, just as you would do 
with a manual film camera, except for ISO, of course, and adjust later in 
LR. (This was her advice for photographers who have a good working knowledge 
of shooting film AND darkroom work.  She does not recommend this for 
beginners in digital photography.)

She suggested this precisely because raw files contain so much color data, 
much of which is never accessed or even accessible with current image 
processing and display technology, on the popular level.

All this is not advice, just my own experience. :-)

As to the voltage question, I remain mute!  :-)

Ken
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