Originally posted by mattdm In the K-7 manual on page 206, I see:
AE-L button Saves the background image. Select [Save as]
and press the 4 button. (Not available during
Live View.)
This doesn't actually seem to work, however. I was messing around with the B&W mode and left it there. When I picked up the camera and took a shot, I realized my mistake and then went to resave as Natural. Pushing the AE-L button appears to work, but the resulting image is still black and white. There are minor differences -- it appears the distortion correction isn't applied -- so it's doing something. Just not what it's supposed to do.
Does this work for anyone?
It worked the last time I tried, but only if editing immediately after taking the shot.
Did you switch off the camera (or left it on auto-power-off) or change anything else in between ?
I think the camera keeps an unprocessed image (RAW ?) of the latest shot in the buffer which can be used for AWB, Custom Image tweaking, but its cleared as soon as you power down or do anything else.