jeroen.k
Member
Hi all,
I am a SD14 user. Use it with great pleasure, but more and more I find myself spending hours and hours behind the desktop, just to get the colors of the photo right.
My camera realy has issues with the green (and magenta) cast. Specialy outdoors where the colors are sometimes so shifted that I simply cannot get "true colors" out of it, without hours of work (I think 30 minutes per photo, using SPP, RawTherapy and GIMP).
I espacialy dislike this, because I have the SD14 for it's magnificant depth and colors, but I find the camera simply unuseable with anything other than custom whitebalance (and even than from time to time). As light conditions change a lot outside, I do not have the intention to shoot a custom white balance before every picture I take...
The lenses I most frequently use are the Sigma 70-200 f2.8 HSM (non Macro) and the 24-70 f2.8 (non HSM)
Now I am thinking about upgrading my body to a SD15, why?
I could realy use the better LCD and the faster writing speed...but if I look at whitebalance, and colour accuracy...is the SD15 better than the SD14? I mean, it does have another image processor. I'm not at all concerned about noise, I don't have the Sigma camera for high ISO's (almost never go higher than ISO200) but I am realy interested in (auto) whitebalance...because this will improve the image quality and reduce the time I have to put in processing the images (I only shoot RAW).
A couple of things I noted about my SD14:
* Whitebalance is NEVER correct. Usualy greencast, sometimes magenta cast and then even sometimes so much off that I can't explain why it did that.
* SPP has no good whitebalance adjusting, yes there is the colour wheel, and yes this works okay using a grey card, but outdoors I don't intend to use a grey card all the time.
* Whitebalance seems okay in the jpeg imbedded in the RAW file, but when opening the RAW file it seems that SPP screws it up big time...
Will an upgrade let my get rid of these whitebalance issues? That's the moest important question for me
I am a SD14 user. Use it with great pleasure, but more and more I find myself spending hours and hours behind the desktop, just to get the colors of the photo right.
My camera realy has issues with the green (and magenta) cast. Specialy outdoors where the colors are sometimes so shifted that I simply cannot get "true colors" out of it, without hours of work (I think 30 minutes per photo, using SPP, RawTherapy and GIMP).
I espacialy dislike this, because I have the SD14 for it's magnificant depth and colors, but I find the camera simply unuseable with anything other than custom whitebalance (and even than from time to time). As light conditions change a lot outside, I do not have the intention to shoot a custom white balance before every picture I take...
The lenses I most frequently use are the Sigma 70-200 f2.8 HSM (non Macro) and the 24-70 f2.8 (non HSM)
Now I am thinking about upgrading my body to a SD15, why?
I could realy use the better LCD and the faster writing speed...but if I look at whitebalance, and colour accuracy...is the SD15 better than the SD14? I mean, it does have another image processor. I'm not at all concerned about noise, I don't have the Sigma camera for high ISO's (almost never go higher than ISO200) but I am realy interested in (auto) whitebalance...because this will improve the image quality and reduce the time I have to put in processing the images (I only shoot RAW).
A couple of things I noted about my SD14:
* Whitebalance is NEVER correct. Usualy greencast, sometimes magenta cast and then even sometimes so much off that I can't explain why it did that.
* SPP has no good whitebalance adjusting, yes there is the colour wheel, and yes this works okay using a grey card, but outdoors I don't intend to use a grey card all the time.
* Whitebalance seems okay in the jpeg imbedded in the RAW file, but when opening the RAW file it seems that SPP screws it up big time...
Will an upgrade let my get rid of these whitebalance issues? That's the moest important question for me