So I recently picked up a used 1D III for a great price (I don't mind a little titanium showing) and shot a few shots tonight. I definitely have a bit of a learning curve, but was wondering if there are issues with auto WB on this body. AWB is usually pretty good on my 5d2 and 60d, but I was getting very yellow casts unless I set a custom WB. Is that normal, or have I missed some setting...
Do you have examples? Particularly two similar lightings (daylight between 10 am and 2 pm is best) or electronic flash, converted and processed identically, from the old camera and the new one? Or side by side if you own two or three models?
Are you shooting Raw mode?
What is your workflow?
Is your monitor calibrated? Is your monitor profiled?
Have you read the manual (available online) and compared settings to your camera?
Have you zeroed out all the settings? May require removing the date-time battery for some minutes.
I can post some samples later. I shoot raw, so it's certainly fixable. It's not the monitor or workflow, as it appears in camera LCD and computer. I'll try zeroing everything and then startig over...
GC5 wrote:
It's not the monitor or workflow, as it appears in camera LCD and computer.
You can't conclude that.
1) Camera LCDs are uncalibrated and do not match across models. However, though it is unlikely to be the monitor, it is always best to calibrate and profile the monitor whenever there is a question of colour cast.
2) Different workflows pick up on different tags in the Raws. Canon DPP of course makes use of the most information.
Another thing to try: using a ColorChecker in each camera and reading of the actual swatch RGB values in the same software, once the gray scale has been matched and neutralized to match shots.
I don't feel the 1d3 has real accurate auto white balance. I typically set it according to the light source or set a manual white balance. You can also fine tune it with the tone setting. Main thing as was already brought out is to have a calibrated monitor or do some prints to see what it's like.
It seems to do fine in daylight, just comes out a little more yellow than I expect under tungsten lights. Being able to store 5 custom WBs pretty much eliminates it as an issue .
