Originally posted by Schraubstock Hi
AWB should get this right. I have a K-5 and it works flawlessly.
I bet the incamera setting somehow got screwed up. Turn the camera on and press the WB of the 4way controller. Maneuver to the top until AWB is highlighted. Press the right side of the 4way controller and now two squares surrounded by a ring will be displayed. The little green square marker should be in the middle. If it is not maneuver it there and press OK. For fine tuning, take a picture and immediately after it goes off from the display press the WB button of the 4way controller as explained above. Your last picture will be displayed and you can now make further adjustments to your liking. The result of your adjustments will be immediately visible in the display.
Further modes can be displayed if you turn the cam on and press the right button of the 4way controller twice. There will be 9 setting options each of which can be fine adjusted, and lock the setting in.
Read the manual !!!!
Greetings
I certainly hope I somehow screwed up the in-cam setting, but I don't think the problem is on the WB setting of the 4way controller since I'm quite familiar as it exactly the same as K20D has. I read the manual over and over regarding this but seems I miss the information.
Look at my pic at the frist post.. it has strong purple color cast on it, it suppose to be a golden sunrise.
Let me compare with another shots, first pic using K5 and the second use K20D.. both has AWB setting (both has the little green square marker in the middle), same lens, location and the lighting condition were very much alike. both processed in LR to get the closest look of the scenery. K20D takes the most realistic picture while K5 suffers purple color cast as before.
K5
K20D
I don't own my K20D anymore to take an apple to apple comparison but my shooting experience with Pentax is long enough to tell something is wrong with my K5 WB. K20D AWB is very accurate right out of the box while I have to juggling around with K5 to get a decent WB.
Please excuse my choice of words since English is not my native language
Thanks mate
Originally posted by Clarkey I don't have the K-5, but Ifind the K-7 to be very accurate. I did find the custom function 12 under K-7 menu "Auto WB under tungsten light" (not sure what it is on the K-5) did make a difference for shots with a lot of yellow in them (I have it set to "strongly correct" at present).
I also have found that the colour response to be different out of the camera to my K200d, and find often that I change the hue in the picture style (this obviously only affects JPGs).
Otherwise Schraubstock is on the money.
Yes from what I heard and seen K7 WB is very accurate.. I heard K5 WB is accurate too that's why I assume I messed up with the in-cam setting, I read the manual but still can't figure out what went wrong.