m3photo
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Re: Pentax Reds
I'll explain.
I do a lot of aerial work and chose the Pentax K20D for this after having a K10D for personal stuff after seeing and liking their colour palette versus the offerings from Canon (which is what I was using up 'till then). The other main reason for choosing a Pentax body was their excellent TaV mode which for helicopter work is a must.
Anyway, back to the reds: For this type of work I need to shoot High Quality Jpegs and I set the White Balance to Daylight, in nearly all my shots I include roof tiles and that is where I have found that the magentas/cyans in their reds are wrong and have to tweak them in the post-processing stage.
So in a nutshell - it's not only on metals and certainly not a K5 quirk.
OK, I think this is general "Pentax Red" we're seeing here not just the K5's fault.As for the white balance, I normally force set my white balance in daylight. But think about this- if it was a white balance issue why are the colors *except those* spot on? That doesn't make sense.
So I am already shooting with daylight white balance. I have tried both already.
PS: Try a red car outside. Metal. Not on an overcast day but on a sunny day.
I'll explain.
I do a lot of aerial work and chose the Pentax K20D for this after having a K10D for personal stuff after seeing and liking their colour palette versus the offerings from Canon (which is what I was using up 'till then). The other main reason for choosing a Pentax body was their excellent TaV mode which for helicopter work is a must.
Anyway, back to the reds: For this type of work I need to shoot High Quality Jpegs and I set the White Balance to Daylight, in nearly all my shots I include roof tiles and that is where I have found that the magentas/cyans in their reds are wrong and have to tweak them in the post-processing stage.
So in a nutshell - it's not only on metals and certainly not a K5 quirk.