IIRC, Pentax has been accused of the same. It has been maintained somewhere that Pentax actually writes the chosen WB into the raw file data in addition to giving info on the temperature/tint values applied. However I cannot recall the source of this information, so take it as hearsay unless someone can confirm it.
Jostein 2008/5/13 P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Funny, > > Here's what bugs me about this entire discussion. It's been suspected > that Nikon, Canon, Sony and Olympus all so some kind of pre-processing > to their RAW files. So in other words RAW for them isn't really raw. > It's just possible that all CMOS chips exhibit this kind of behavior, in > fact most implementations of CCD chips may as well, especially if most > manufacturers are applying some sort preprocessing before presenting the > "RAW" data. The fact is only two testing sites observed this, one who's > results are highly suspect as they fly in the face of everyone else's > impressions, and another who IMHO doesn't really know how to do an > unbiased test. Most other testers didn't and even gave the K20D kudos > for it's fine resolution, and high ISO performance. The only people who > should be inconvenienced by this would seem to me to be amateur > astro-photographers, and they should probably be using glass plates > anyway if they care about not getting spurious data. > > Gonz wrote: >> Zombie pixels >> >> On 5/11/08, mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> > >>> > From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> >>>> The problem that DPReview is having is that they have recieved a couple of >>>> cameras which have >>>> >>> > mobile dead pixels. >>> >>> >>> Interesting. So they are, in fact, not dead. There is some other reason >>> for the misbehaviour. I do wonder what it could be. >>> >>> >>> ----------------------------------------- >>> Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email >>> Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >>> >> >> > > > -- > Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... > -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
