also, pretty sure green mode on the dial disables all customization except the color profile used. both cameras with the same color mode should look identical in green mode with no filters set.
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Zos Xavius <zosxav...@gmail.com> wrote: > The raws are identical?? Something seems like its different in your > firmware. Something you are missing? Custom WB set by accident? Even > on AWB you can shift it. these colors look hue shifted. Before you > send it back, I would reset the firmware on both cameras just to be > sure. I'm pretty sure you can do that from the setup menu. > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:09 PM, John Coyle <jco...@iinet.net.au> wrote: >> This might be completely wrong, but I wonder if the WB settings were >> affected by the differing >> specular reflections from the water surface? >> >> John Coyle >> Brisbane, Australia >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Stan Halpin >> Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2014 4:28 AM >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: Re: K-3 wonkiness >> >> Follow-up: >> >> I went ahead and used both cameras today. Same strange color balance in the >> camera A jpg's. >> To better explain what I am talking about, here is a screen shot taken while >> downloading into >> Lightroom. The thumbnails shown have not yet had LR generate a preview and >> it's own version of a >> thumbnail based on the DNG. The first 7 of 8 thumbnails shown were taken in >> fairly rapid sequence as >> I was following five small boats across the scene, trying to get a shot with >> a good juxtoposition of >> the five boats and the lager sailing vessel behind. So all seven shots had >> the same shooting >> parameters. You can see the color variation in the thumbnnails. >> >> http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p155717848/hC9DBF3E#hc9dbf3e >> >> I did wash the camera with cold water prior to using it (;-)> and I did >> check all settings to verify >> that I have no "color filters" or other offending choices activated. >> >> stan >> >> On Mar 4, 2014, at 3:29 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: >> >>> Not a biggie since i haven't lost anything yet, but this was a bit >>> disturbing... >>> >>> So I carry two K-3's, A and B. A is used more often, it hangs from a wrist >>> strap. B stays in the >> backpack or sometimes around my neck if I am switching back and forth >> between wide and long for >> example. I occasionally chimp, primarily to check the RGB histograms to make >> sure I haven't >> inadvertently changed a setting and put myself out of range. Today on my A >> camera I was noticing a >> strange color cast on the LCD. After a few more shots I became convinced >> that something was wonky, >> switched to the B camera and went on. >>> >>> I just downloaded the shots from camera A via Lightroom. As long as >>> Lightroom was displaying >> thumbnails based on the in-camera jpg rendering, the color balance was way >> off still. But once LR >> rendered previews, built from the RAW data, everything looks just fine. So, >> the jpg portion of my >> K-# processor has a random variable color-balance problem, but the basic DNG >> capture is just fine. >> To be clear, there is not a consistent color balance bias toward too much >> green in the jpg's for >> example. Rather, it is off in a random way for each shot. >>> >>> Since I only shoot DNG and don't capture jpeg's in parallel, the good news >>> here far outweighs the >> bad. But still unsettling... >>> >>> stan >>> >> >> >> -- >> 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. >> >> >> -- >> 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. -- 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.
