Should I revisit NEX with NEX6? Skin tone jpegs were not good for me with 5N

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Ray Maines
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Re: Should I revisit NEX with NEX6? Skin tone jpegs were not good for me with 5N
In reply to Nell27, 6 months ago

Custom WB is a wonderful thing.  In a perfect world every camera would always take perfect pictures, but this isn't a perfect world.  Doing a custom WB goes a long way towards making your personal world perfect though and this is how you do it with a NEX-6.  Just don't forget to change the WB settings when you migrate to a different lighting situation.

A word of wisdom:  Custom WB is done by shooting at a WHITE subject.  Custom exposure is accomplished by shooting at a grey card.  Grey is different than white.

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Nell27 wrote:

photo perzon wrote:

I was not happy with skin tones with the 5N ...  People looked yellow/orange to me.

My friend, that's because you were never able to get a correct white balance (a difficult thing to do with the NEX and indoor lighting).

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