I did the same thing, Cory, and found no practical difference in the results.
I've not suffered from excessive noise in any event ... G On Dec 13, 2006, at 5:28 AM, Cory Papenfuss wrote: > It's not pure speculation. When I first got my -DS, I dove into > the color management and white balance stuff. One of the things I > did was > add a white-balance (warming) filter on the lens and shoot a very cool > color temp shot (overcast, evening approaching, etc). Bottom line was > that after adjusting the WB in the RAW conversion between the > filtered and > unfiltered version, there was less noise in the channels that were > captured approximating 5500K color temp. > > Bottom line: It was better to filter out (via the lens filter) > the light that would blow out a single channel (like blue on an > overcast > day or red for a sunset) and then increase the exposure to bring > *all* the > levels up. Quantifiably less noise in the lower-level channels by > doing > that. > > Sometimes being an engineer is a curse... :) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
