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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
12-14-2014, 07:35 AM
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I am on mac, I put a spyder calibrator on my list this year so maybe the wife will feel generous !
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Forum: Pentax Forums Giveaways
12-14-2014, 07:33 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
12-06-2014, 06:05 PM
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so I think I found a workaround to this issue.... I saw a post about it on another forum and this is what seems to work-
open adobe's DNG profile editor
navigate to the adobe camera raw profiles and load a profile ( I chose the 5d mk3 because I like the colors)
open a dng from the pentax in the editor
export the profile as a new name
Change the profile under camera calibration in lightroom
Hopefully this did the trick. I will report back if it doesn't work in the long run
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
12-06-2014, 11:12 AM
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gold (48 of 80).jpggold (67 of 80).jpg
these are some pics that might show what I mean. Not a horrible cast... just to my eye it doesn't seem right. The bridge picture is dull and flat and I feel it looks orangey/ yellowish green. Not what the scene actually looked like that day. If I changed the white balance any more than this it comes out way too magenta..
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
12-03-2014, 02:57 PM
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thanks steve. I will check that out. I need a nice sunny day so that I can test both the old camera and new one and then also use the jpeg /raw files to see if I can get them to look the same or not.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
12-03-2014, 02:55 PM
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Thanks for the tip, thats sort of what I was thinking of doing as well. I was going to export the tiffs from silkypix but guess what.... it won't read the dng's from the pentax even though it is the pentax edition of silkypix. not sure if its because I imported the files into lightroom but silkypix just says it can't read those files.... I will try DCU5 and see if the pics are any better.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
12-03-2014, 02:54 PM
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thanks for that. I did see that post earlier and I found the k50 rawstudio camera profiles but they look realllly bad. I definitely will try to calibrate my monitor as well.
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
12-02-2014, 05:21 PM
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Thanks, I am planning on asking for a color calibrator for my monitor for christmass so I'm hoping that will help. I will try to get some pics on later. At the moment I don't own a grey card but I am planning on getting one or the xrite maybe. I think the biggest change I see between the embedded and adobe standard is a significant shift from blue to purple and the white balance shifts everything greenish. I also see the oranges go more towards yellowy green than red. Not sure if this is how the pentax coloration is supposed to be but I will keep playing with it. I did try to shoow some RAW + files yesterday to see if that made any difference but it was a rainy day so it was hard to tell. I will try again with better light
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
12-02-2014, 04:44 PM
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Hi all,
I've been lurking on the pentax forums for months now waiting until I received my k50. I've been enjoying the camera so far but have run into some unexpected issues which are really putting a damper on my shooting. When I edit RAW files I've taken with the K50 in Lightroom the white balance just seems wrong. I originally used the adobe standard profile for calibration which I have done for years with my Nikon 1 without any issues. The adobe standard doesn't quite look right with the k50 files (too magenta) so I switched it to embedded which makes all the shadows very green tinted. I can fix it somewhat by tweaking white balance but the settings that come with lightroom (cloudy, daylight, flash) etc. are all useless and don't seem to correspond to the k50's white balance settings at all. I have been using auto WB since I always just change it in LR. I tried switching to adobe RGB ...again not really relating to RAW but I figured it didn't hurt to try. At this point my photos are coming out OK but they lack the colors and pop of the RAW files from my prior camera which has a sensor 1/3 the size of my k50. I'm considering returning it and going back to nikon because I can't figure this out. I asked pentax and they said "we don't test with lightroom". I asked adobe and they didn't answer so now I ask you all! What are the ideal settings for my k50 to work in lightroom or better yet do you have a camera calibration profile that works well for you?
Thanks in advance.
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