Having had a bit of fun tinkering with the manual adjustment of white balance on the GX10 (see this post), was feeling a bit adventurous so thought I’d see if anything similar were possible with my point & shoot, a Konica Minolta DiMAGE z6.
And it is! And in a very similar manner, although the manual recommends the use of a white card (not grey, as with the GX10).
Clearly the obvious place for the experimentation was my favourite “weird lighting haunt”, inside The Bear pub in Bedford.
Overall the results were reasonably satisfactory although on reflection what I think I should have done, because there are varying light sources at the location, was to have reset the white balance for each separate light source. Something to remember when I’m doing it “for real”.
A very minor achievement maybe, but I’m inordinately pleased that I’ve finally got my head around this little tweak. All sorts of possibilities are now suggesting themselves to me!
Any excuse to visit The Bear, eh?
No excuse needed!
