{"id":7774,"date":"2015-11-06T21:17:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T19:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlebigtravelingcamera.com\/?p=7774"},"modified":"2015-11-07T09:56:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T07:56:26","slug":"autumn-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlebigtravelingcamera.com\/?p=7774","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DSC03139\"<\/a>SONY ILCE-7R (35mm, f\/4, 1\/60 sec, ISO250)
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End of October can be foggy, cold and wet but sometimes spectacular.<\/p>\n

This year we have one of the best autumns so far. Sunny days and blue skies and of course beautiful autumn colors. All yellow, orange and red. Magical.<\/p>\n

\"DSC03140\"<\/a>SONY ILCE-7R (25mm, f\/4, 1\/160 sec, ISO100)
<\/span> \"DSC03137\"<\/a>SONY ILCE-7R (35mm, f\/5.6, 1\/60 sec, ISO400)
<\/span> \"DSC03145\"<\/a>SONY ILCE-7R (110mm, f\/5.6, 1\/125 sec, ISO640)
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Time to talk about the Sony A7R. The last couple of years I mainly shot with either Canon DSLRs or with Fuji mirrorless cameras. Both camera makers manage to offer a reasonable well working auto white balance. Sometimes I have to correct WB but most of the time the\u00a0results out of the box\u00a0are really good.<\/p>\n

Why I’m telling you that? Well, the Sony is different. My Sony A7R has serious problems to find the right white balance. Not only in shadows. I remember when I was talking pictures at the Bryce Canyon NP this summer and watched the rocks to turn grey in the viewfinder. The EVF is not a master piece. Much more video like than the viewfinder of my Fuji X-T1 but it is good enough to see that the colors slowly fade to grey.<\/p>\n

With the golden glowing autumn forest it was just about the same. Just take a look at the image above. This is what Sony’s auto white balance made of it. The picture below shows how it really looked like.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile I found a simple solution: I set my white balance to CLOUDY just like I did in the good old days with my Nikon D1 in 2002. It’s amazing. Sony managed to put all that technology and a big sensor in such a small camera body but their AWB is as sophisticated\u00a0as the one in a Nikon DSLR from the year 1999.<\/p>\n

\"DSC03147\"<\/a>SONY ILCE-7R (110mm, f\/2.8, 1\/125 sec, ISO200)
<\/span> \"DSC03150\"<\/a>SONY ILCE-7R (120mm, f\/2.8, 1\/320 sec, ISO100)
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