Moose wrote:
> AG Schnozz wrote:
>>
>> My issue is with the lack of "pink" in the skin. It just doesn't
>> exist in these shots. Granted, they might be Canadians, which would
>> definitely explain the exhaust/closed-garage aspect, but still, they
>> don't look they have freezer burn.
>>
> I again reveal my ignorance:
>
> I know that there is no way that a camera can get white balance right
> without some information or assumptions, which can take four forms.
> ...
> 4. Some manufacturers have introduced "intelligent" Auto WB, where the
> camera compares color (and other?) characteristics of a subject with
> stored samples to deduce what kind of scene it is, and set the WB
> accordingly.
>
> This is a P&S feature, not for pro DSLRs. However, I think the Auto WB
> results of Canyon cameras are a simple form of this. DPreview has been
> dumping on them for years about their poor Auto WB performance in
> incandescent light. Given their general competance at other aspects of
> image quality, I ask myself hwether this characteristic might be
> intentional, to give the look of warmth most people expect and find
> natural in such shots.
--- Amen ---
>
> Now I know the SmartShooter skin tone test is flawed, in several ways in
> addition to leaving out your beloved E-1. However, lots and lots of pros
> who make (or try to make) a living taking just those kinds of pictures
> and selling them to the subjects and their loved ones looked at lots and
> lots of prints taken under limited, but controlled conditions. Voting
> blind, they choose the 5D as the camera producing the best skin tones in
> JPEG shooting at default settings.
>
> So I propose that C did just what I would have done, as outlined above,
> set default WB for the most WB sensitive application. I suspect that the
> vast majority of people looking at the sports shot in SI don't notice
> skin tones unless they are so far off that they start to make
> determining race difficult. So how stupid would they have to be to tune
> Auto WB for such situations? Having got that right on the 5D, why on
> earth would they do anything but use the same set-up on the 1DIII?
--- Amen ---
Chuck Norcutt
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