Canon 300D Mod glass clear help please

[BlackWidow]

Hi all! I have been reading about modding my Canon 300D. Looks simple to do and all I need to find is where I can purchase (Australia) the clear glass to replace the filter glass in the camera. Once I have this I can start the mod and get a Xnite CC1 filter to put on the front of the camera for Daylight use..


Hope somone can assist.

Regards
Mardy

[troypiggo]

I haven't done the mod myself, but just thought I'd comment first on the XNite CC1 filter. I was expecting it to correct the white balance back to what it should be if the camera was not modded. It doesn't. The white balance is still a little off, so I had to do a custom white balance with all of my shots anyway, so have decided to do away with the filter and just custom white balance all my shots with just the clear glass filter. Saves mucking around with screw-in filters.

[Visionoz]

Hi Troy

In doing custom WB - is this process done during daylight hours or done to suit the night sky?

Cheers
Bill

[troypiggo]

I just keep the WB on the camera set to "daylight" all the time.

For astro, that's fine and you're processing pretty heavily anyway, stretching, playing with levels and curves a lot.

For normal photography, I have a white balance card that I try to shoot in the same light as my subject first. Then when I'm processing, I just use the eyedropper and click on the grey card to set white balance. After a while under different light conditions, you get used to what colour temperature and tint adjustments need to be made to correct the white balance shift. Actually, I haven't used the white balance card for a couple of months.

This is the one I got - WhiBal (http://www.rawworkflow.com/whibal/)from RawWorkflow.com.

[Octane]

I use a WhiBal as well. It's saved my skin a number of times.

Although, I do tend to warm up my portraits/weddings as the correct white balance often leaves a rather clinical look to the images.

Note, also that with Canon cameras, you can use the WhiBal to set custom white balance when shooting your subject -- change to spot metering, ensure that the WhiBal covers the circle in the viewfinder, shoot it at correct exposure (aperture priority often helps) and then set the image you've just shot of the card as your custom white balance through the menus.

Nikon's require the entire frame to be filled with the white balance card.

H