Garth! Welcome the club! I've used one for a few years and really
appreciate the benefits it brings to post-shoot workflow. If you
shoot flash it can help with that as well.
Of course the E1 crowd tells me they don't need no stinkin' Expodisc
because their Auto WB is so durn accurate. Ahem.
Have fun!/ScottGee1
On 3/30/06, Garth Wood <getwood1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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