John wrote: you can't be on Earth!

Aw, c'mon, John! You've known THAT for years now!

You're right of course, 2000K to 12,000K spans the whole spectrum of light. My NG results must be from another failure in the test. Neither my camera nor I do well on tests

Tried it and it works! The camera is quite fussy about what it will handle, and I got a lot of NG (No Good - try again). I think on the older models like the k110D, the Kelvin temperature range (2000 to 12,000) may not be wide enough to handle ALL lighting situations, resulting in the NG results. But then again, what do I know?

Bottom line - well worth the effort, fun to explore, and adds more creative control. (Or in my case, more opportunity for disaster )

Thanks again to everyone.

Ken, Terry, John, Don, Peters and George.

Thanks to you all for the quick replies!

Dug out the manual (again) and sho'nuf, there on page 115 was something I didn't understand the first few times around - that I could adjust white balance in manual by shooting something like a grey card under the lighting conditions in question. I've watched studio pros shooting grey cards and never quite got what was going on.

OK, time to learn and stow my filter away for a macro day.

Cheers to everyone!

Hi Folks!

Started fooling around with white balance on my K110D. I was getting tired of the yellow cast created by tungsten bulbs. Setting balance to Tungsten helped - but not as much as leaving the setting on AWB, and putting on my trusty 80B filter I used for spot-lit macro work in my film days.

Then I ran around taking all kinds of shots with the filter in place.

I LIKE IT! Indoors, outdoors in snow, Christmas tree, no flash, with flash. Sometimes, especially with snow, there is a "slight" blue cast, but I find it quite pleasant.

Only downside is the two f stops it costs me. I don't have an 80A to try, so I don't know if that combination would be even better.

Now, the dumb question - why do I think the AWB / 80B combination is better than AWB alone. Obviously the AWB is correcting the heavy blue from the filter, but the result's are great to my eye.

Has anyone else played with this?

Have a super day everyone.

[quote:3496ace15f="ttk"]Congrats, and sods law you will get the heating bill tomorrow

Terry,

Is Sod's Law the same as Murphy's Law?

We Canadians are suffering much the same as the Brits, with our dollar plunging against our neighbour's.

Maybe it's time for me to talk to Chris as well.

Enjoy your reward Gwyn!

Hey Garret!

Welcome aboard! you'll like it here.

Hey Kris!

Where you at?

Hi Martin!

So glad it went well!

Enjoy!

Ah Terry!

Time for a monitor upgrade?

Or is it time for me to clean mine:

Wait! They're not sheep! They're cute little dust bunnies!



Sorry for any confusion......

New topic - Monitor Cleaning

Do they have really big Artic Butterflies?

Welcome aboard Bernadette.

I've just had a browse through your profile and your three photos are really very good!

Roland,

That's it!

I KNEW there was something about #1 that was throwing me off.

I keep trying to count them and fall asleep every time!

Still like the first shot quite a lot though, I find it has a great sense of space and depth with the cloud shadow in upper left vs perfectly slanted early morning light in lower right.