That was informative. I frequently see statements on a forum that
such and such camera can't do purple which is quickly answered by
people with wonderful examples of purple in their images. If I
encounter that I will try your technique of properly looking at the
image and balancing it.
The invitation to compare your LCD image with the website is a bit of
a scam I think. There is no such thing as a calibrated LCD on a
camera. Seeing a color difference says nothing about the image itself
and to imply that it does is dishonesty by the software maker. Using
an LCD for anything other than display of menus and tools, framing or
checking focus seems to me to be asking for grief.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Mar 11, 2006, at 9:34 AM, Richard Lovison wrote:
> I came across an interesting article in April's issue of Shutterbug
> magazine
> that reviewed a new Adobe plugin called DCF Full Spectrum (
> www.tribecalabs.com/home.htm). The company claims that digital
> cameras have
> a difficult time reproducing the color purple and challenges you to
> take an
> image of their website page and compare their page to what you see
> on your
> camera LCD. I was up to the challenge so with WB set to auto on my
> E-1 with
> no lights on in the room I took the shot. Sure enough my LCD
> preview gave a
> very blue image compared to what was on my computer monitor. Panic
> began to
> settle in but then a light bulb came on in my brain... "I probably
> need to
> fine tune WB", I thought to myself. So off to RAW conversion I
> went and
> changed the 6200K setting the camera chose to 7000K. With an
> additional
> change in Photoshop of +3 green in the highlights (I find I need to
> do this
> correction when shooting snow scenes to get rid of a slight magenta
> cast in
> the highlights), lo and behold, my Photoshop image came darn close,
> really
> darn close to what Tribecalabs website page looked like. So much for
> trouble with the color purple, at least to the extent Tribecalabs
> claims.
>
> Richard
>
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