How would you use this?

[Yeager]

Pringles or Coffee anyone?

Apparently, these a pringles can lid or a coffee filter are all you need to customize your white balance for almost any indoor or outdoor shot! Your mileage may vary, but according to some, they are as good as the commercial ExpoDisc.

The Pringles lid may tend toward the blue, but many swear by 1 or 2 coffee filters.

Use the instructions for setting custom white balance in your manual.

Savings: $80 price of ExpoDisc


How exactly could I adapt this to my G5? Being as nieve as I am, I would think it would just take a picture of some coffee filters if I held them in front of my G5. Let me know what you guys think.

[cprevost]

You are using something white to set a custom white balance. If you click on WB on the back of your camera and scrol to the custom white balance you will then point your camera at something white and press the * button. This will set a custom white balance that should give you correct color for the light.

[Yeager]

So this coffee filter fix is really only for SLR cameras or does it work on digital cameras as well?

[Penguin_101_1]

I think it would work for other digitals. I don't see why not.

[stopbath]

I think it would work for other digitals. I don't see why not.
Yes, any material without colour (white or grey) will work fine for any camera using through the lens white balance.

There are pocket grey cards you can buy for white balance as well, but you could use any pure white paper (quality copy paper), plastic, cloth or... whatever. As long as it does not have an undertone of colour, it should work. (no subtle color)

[Yeager]

The thing i am not understanding is how the image gets through the filter. A coffee filter isnt exactly transparent. If I used a piece of white paper how exactly would the image get through the paper? That is the issue i am having with understanding this.

[Penguin_101_1]

Oh. You don't take every picture through the filter. You go to where you select the white balance and go to custom and take 1 picture. That will then set the white balance and you take pictures like normal. That is how you do it on my A60 I don't know about the G5 but it should be similar.

[stopbath]

The white card (coffee filter, white plastic....) is used to reflect ALL the light available so that the camera can see "pure light" when you push the set button for the custom white balance. The camera can then try to balance the spectrum so that the light will appear natural in the photo.

Your photos will be without any white or grey card in them, unless you want a reference photo, and then they are usually beside the subject or held by the subject.

Suggest reading the manual on setting the white balance.

[Yeager]

Well that makes total sense now! The way it is pictured in the ad, the filter is on a ring that screws onto the end of the camera. That would make so much more sense to use it as a reference! Thank you so much! I feel so little right now. :oops:

[Penguin_101_1]

Well that makes total sense now! The way it is pictured in the ad, the filter is on a ring that screws onto the end of the camera. That would make so much more sense to use it as a reference! Thank you so much! I feel so little right now. :oops:

They do make filters that don't set white balance like star filters, UV filters, ect.