I don't need very accurate color all the time, what important is they have
to be close and look beautiful. White balance is not all, most DSLR have
very accurate color with calbrated target (seen from test reports), the fact
is different brands give different results with different scenes. Even
different RAW converter gives different result. I just want to stick with
the best (at least to my eyes).
You are right about the adjustment, you can pick a sample from one photo and
correct the other one but what if you don't have another one to compare?
Like many people say their camera gives perfect good color, they will never
know the truth when there is no comparison.
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message -----
From: "Moose"
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 5:00 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: I have relented ....
>Not hard to get the flowers to match, but then small differences in
>other elements remain. Just a quick application of Color Match to a
>selection of the same part of one of the flowers in each example. Of
>course, I know your eyes are more color sensitive than mine, so what
>seems an infinitesimal difference to me may be too much for you
><http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Violets.htm>.
> A larger question for me is how important perfectly accurate color is to
> me. I only ask the question because the vast majority of things I
> photograph are not later available at all, let alone in the identical
> light is which they were shot, for comparison with the screen or printed
> image.
>
> I've been playing around with the WhiBal. It certainly provides a way to
> assure very accurate color, certainly much closer than the difference in
> your examples, with any RAW process. Using it or something similar,
> accurate color should be easy whenever it's important.
>
> On the other hand, when I went out Thursday and shot over 140 RAW
> images, I left the WhiBal home. I knew that my camera and ACR would do
> quite a creditable job on the kind of things I would be shooting and
> that any subtle differences would never be noticed because subject and
> image would never meet.
>
> Moose
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