how many of you are using custom Picture Controls?

[Peter Blake]

not sure what Canon Pentax, Sony, Olympus etc call them. you can adjust the characteristics of the image in camera, before shooting. contrast/filter simulation/film simulation/saturation etc

 

[Larry Bolch]

In unusual light, I often do a custom white balance. It often is accurate enough that little or no fine tuning is needed in ACR. RAW has no actual white balance, but the preview image shows the state of the camera when the exposure was made. When I shoot IR with the X-Pro1, I generally do a film-simulation bracket with monochrome and red, yellow and green filtration. Setting the film simulation to monochrome, I get an accurate preview of the image in the EVF and LCD, which is handy for visualization if needed.

 

[Dave Moss]

I havn't got that far yet [doh]

 

[Chris Dodkin]

I shoot all my Fuji stuff in Velvia mode - The RAW file doesn't have the film profile applied, but I like the way the Velvia looks when I'm composing the images in the camera.

I then PP to my own version of Velvia

 

[David Mitchell]

I just shoot everything RAW, then sort things out when imported so that the camera doesn't process anything, custom white balance would be useful though - would be more useful if I actually owned a 18% gray card lol *sigh*

 

[Paul Lange]

I pretty much use RAW all the time so don't bother with the in camera adjustments.

 

[David Mitchell]

The alternative is to shoot film, film cameras have an auto white balance setting built in

 

[Paul Lange]

Not colour, you have to use balanced film or the appropriate filter.

 

[Pete Askew]

I don't use these options either. I shoot raw most of the time (the two S5s are set to JPEG, tungsten lighting as they are used to produce 'quick 'n dirty' shots for reports) and, depending on the setup, will include a colour target in the first shot to use during 'processing'. But the conditions will not change after that as lighting etc is controlled very tightly.

 

[Hamish Gill]

The alternative is to shoot film, film cameras have an auto white balance setting built in

That sounds like the sorta thing ken Rockwell would say ... I shouldn't read too much into what he says ...
As long as you use the right filter ... Have a look here about cooling and warming filters ... It's not much Choosing a Camera Lens Filter

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I used picture controls when I fisrt got my rx100 ... That was just because raw wasn't recognised by LR4 and the out of camera shots were a bit on the contrasty side (trademark sony)

 

[Dave Moss]

Now I understand this better I use to use velvia for the JPegs on the Fuji as they were slightly warmer than the standard shots now I have the Nikon most if not all the shots will be taken with RAW (I'm not scared of it anymore)

 

[Peter Blake]

so one would use Picture Controls in RAW why? to minimise the amount of time spent plonking on keyboards? to be able to say triumphantly 'There! straight out of camera...' ?

I get the impression some people continue to trumpet them for the reason of having something to teach people. or maybe I am just becoming cynical in my old age

 

[Beth Carter]

i don't mess around much with picture styles or ren kockwell. one's about as useful as the other is to me when adjusting the raw file. though the fuji-made velviaesque jpgs i've seen do look nice.

 

[Darren Turner]

as other have said I pretty much use RAW all the time so don't bother with the in camera adjustments.

 

[Mike Milton]

I shoot and work from raw. That said, my camera has 3 banks of settings that can be chosen like modes (P1,P2,P3) and I have them set up to quickly change from tracking and high speed multi images to single shot modes with differing AF details. This saves quite a bit of time. Each bank takes all the settings you've made and lets you get back there instantly.

If one does video, the settings that (i think) you are referring to are useful because you have less opportunity for post processing (compared to raw). It might make sense to lessen contrast and saturation, for example.

 

[Stephen McCullough]

I shoot all my Fuji stuff in Velvia mode - The RAW file doesn't have the film profile applied, but I like the way the Velvia looks when I'm composing the images in the camera.

I then PP to my own version of Velvia

I like the Fuji Velvia setting too, and usually shoot RAW+jpeg. Most of the time I end up using the RAW, but sometimes the jpeg is virtually perfect.

I would like to process the RAW files to Velvia myself, but haven't yet spent the time working out the detail of the edit settings.