Koizumi13 Posted June 28, 2012 Share #21  Posted June 28, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Here are some quick unedited samples...  http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/5706/leicax2firmware1point1.jpg   Let me know your thoughts Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sfowler Posted June 28, 2012 Share #22  Posted June 28, 2012 Here are some quick unedited samples... http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/5706/leicax2firmware1point1.jpg   Let me know your thoughts  I see what your saying but I had that even before the update. Any camera I have ever owned - when your taking shots inside a home like that with incandescent lighting - the brain of the camera tries its best to get the correct WB but I have never seen a camera to date do AWB and get it like a grey card. I always had to unjust for that when I did shots like that inside a home. The picture on top looks like (IMO) it should with AWB in that setting. I have owned a Canon 5d with Zeiss lenses and never ever could get a picture with AWB to be exactly like a grey card when it comes out of the camera. I always had to adjust within lightroom. I think your fine to be honest. I don't see any difference in the old version 1.0 to 1.1 in my pictures AWB. I looked at some of my old pictures taken with the Leica X2 using the old version 1.0 and they were shots in my house using AWB and they were pretty much the same as now with the yellow and greens like you mentioned are there like in V1.0 and in Ver 1.1. Thats more normal for a camera within an apartment in that lighting situation. Dont take this wrong - I just think that this is normal for a camera of any type. It don't look bad as it is, but the WB corrected is even better because its accurate. I like accurate too thats why I bought the Leica X2. IQ is the reason for my purchase. But I have never ever seen any camera produce a picture inside a home in that light situation to be accurate without using a grey card or some type of tool to get true WB. That is why I have a little white card that I had put together to help in situations like this. I am not big on using the dropper tool in lightroom but if needed I use it. I would like my pictures when I am taking them inside a home or such - to be accurate right out of the camera. I put one of these together and life is simpler now making better pictures inside a home like that.  Expodisc Alternative : Coffee Filter | Flickr - Photo Sharing!  Thats why I have those pictures that have WB corrected in my post above. I corrected them using this little WB corrector tool I made. I have before WB not corrected and with WB corrected. Very simple to do. I suggest you make one and prior to taking a picture, just pop this on the front of the camera take a quick shot and now all your pictures will come out perfectly corrected for the surrounding inside a home. It takes a total of maybe 10 seconds to get that done. Take a picture tell the camera to use the picture for WB and your done. Now all your pictures will be accurate within surroundings like this.  I would love to see any camera maker make a AWB accurately work. That would even be right. I have never seen that ever occur. My buddy has an expensive Nikon and I know people who have a canon mark 3 and they get the same output from awb in a situation like your having. Its difficult lighting in that scenario. I wish I had a better answer to help you. But I think your going to get that with any camera using AWB in that type of lighting condition.  I have three pictures here please excuse the first one for its not exact position as the others but should be okay to use as an example. ver 1.0 AWB _DSC1122 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!  ver 1..1 AWB L1030479 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!  ver 1.1 AWB Corrected and is truly the correct way it should look and my walls are more like in this picture like a teal color not yellow like in the other pictures. L1030474 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!   I hope that helps. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjh Posted June 28, 2012 Share #23  Posted June 28, 2012 Any camera I have ever owned - when your taking shots inside a home like that with incandescent lighting - the brain of the camera tries its best to get the correct WB but I have never seen a camera to date do AWB and get it like a grey card. AWB isn’t designed to handle incandescent lighting. Not all the camera vendors publicise the range of colour temperatures their AWB is designed to handle, but those that do (Canon and Pentax come to mind) make it clear that the realm of AWB starts above 3400 K or even higher, i.e. well above the colour temperature of tungsten lighting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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