Well, yesterday I pulled the trigger on another photo-related
purchase (a small one this time): I went out and bought one of the
legendary ExpoDiscs for the A1. And then I used it on my camera for
the first time to set a totally custom white balance. To sum up:
This thing *ROCKS*.
Why did I wait so long? Why, Lord? WHY? With five seconds' worth
of effort, I get a white balance that's completely "attuned" to the
ambient light mix, and the results were nothing short of shockingly,
jaw-droppingly fabulous -- instead of dicking around for five minutes
per photo in Photoshop to try and get something that looked
approximately like what I thought I saw, I got images that were damn
close to perfect. No diddlin' curves. No fartin' around with
levels. Hell, I may just marry this thing.
Custom white balances can be done in other ways, and the AutoWB on my
A1 (and, I presume, on the various E-thingies) is pretty good, but
now I'll give up my ExpoDisc when someone pries it from my cold, dead hands.
I'm just sayin'.
Garth
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