Cameras for blue photos

[Carley]

What’s a good camera that has a white balance edit, and macro lens without breaking the bank? I’m currently using my iPhone with a macro lens and an orange filter, but they’re just “ok” photos. Thanks in advance!

 

[Reef Monkie]

What’s a good camera that has a white balance edit, and macro lens without breaking the bank? I’m currently using my iPhone with a macro lens and an orange filter, but they’re just “ok” photos. Thanks in advance!

Any camera that supports shooting in RAW mode will allow you to edit the white balance on a computer after the picture is shot with software like Adobe Lightroom, it does this without actually changing the original RAW image. A RAW file is simply the raw data that the sensor captures so the only settings you can't really change after the fact are aperture (so depth of field), focus point, and exposure time. Lightroom is much simpler to use than photoshop and it recognises most camera/lens models so even corrects for errors in lenses. If you buy a 'grey card' (yes it is just a piece of card of a certain shade of grey) and shoot a test shot in the lighting of your tank) you can then get a 'correct' reading of the light and simply use that setting for correcting white balance in lightroom in all your shots made in the same light conditions.

 

[Lasse]

Look at Olympus though 5. I have a though 3 and you can adjust your white balance in a easy way. Just put the camera to focus in a white area of the aquarium (coral sand as an example) press a button and your white balance is adjusted. The 5 version also hav RAW (3 not). Look at my thread - all pictures and movies is taken with the though 3 version and I run a Pacific Sun SMT fixture (lot of blue - no white LEDs) The videos has no correction afterwards. The photos - sometimes automatical colour (photo shop)

Sincerely Lasse

 

[wcharon]

Any camera that supports shooting in RAW mode will allow you to edit the white balance on a computer after the picture is shot with software like Adobe Lightroom, it does this without actually changing the original RAW image. A RAW file is simply the raw data that the sensor captures so the only settings you can't really change after the fact are aperture (so depth of field), focus point, and exposure time. Lightroom is much simpler to use than photoshop and it recognises most camera/lens models so even corrects for errors in lenses. If you buy a 'grey card' (yes it is just a piece of card of a certain shade of grey) and shoot a test shot in the lighting of your tank) you can then get a 'correct' reading of the light and simply use that setting for correcting white balance in lightroom in all your shots made in the same light conditions.

Lightroom is a paid software right?

 

[Shadowspop]

I agree with the Olympus tough camera. I also have a 3 and love it. It actually has a setting for shooting macro underwater.

 

[Waters]

I use a free app called Snapseed to edit my iPhone pictures. Lets you easily remove the blue and balance everything else in a matter of seconds.

 

[Reef Monkie]

Lightroom is a paid software right?

Lightroom is paid software, or even worse, it is subscription based software. You can get the non-cloud based lightroom 'classic' with a 9.99 a month sub for photoshop or a 1 terabyte cloud based lightroom without photoshop. If you are serious about photography it is very useful, there are alternatives though. DXO Optics Pro is paid software (about $130) that also has the lens correction and Lightzone which is free and open-source but does not has lens correction as far as I know.

What makes Lightzone so useful compared to photoshop or the camera's own software is its catalogue features and ease of use, once you have thousands of photo's it is really handy to have a very good catalogue feature. It is more like a digital darkroom and much easier to use than photoshop because sometimes less is more when you want to have a fast workflow.

 

[Reef Monkie]

What’s a good camera that has a white balance edit, and macro lens without breaking the bank? I’m currently using my iPhone with a macro lens and an orange filter, but they’re just “ok” photos. Thanks in advance!

Since people are actually advising brands of cameras I would suggest a budget DSLR, the problem with fixed lens cameras is that once they become outdated you wasted a lot of money by buying a fixed lens. If you take care of your gear a lens will last a lifetime and both Cannon and Nikon have backward compatibility for most lenses. You can also get good deals on second hand lenses. If you decide to change gear you can also sell your old lenses, compare that to attempting to sell a 5 year old fixed lens camera.

The other issue with fixed lens camera's is you are often stuck with very limited depth of field (what is in focus) and the sensors are often much smaller than in even a budget DSLR, a small sensor means more digital 'noise'. You can get compact camera's with bigger sensors but they are often a lot more expensive.

Unless you are a pro there hasn't really been that much innovation in camera technology in the past few years so you could even choose to go with a second hand DSLR body and a nice macro lens or one of the cheaper new Cannon's or Nikon's and a second hand macro lens for about the same price as one of the new fixed lens camera's from other brands.

 

[madweazl]

What’s a good camera that has a white balance edit, and macro lens without breaking the bank? I’m currently using my iPhone with a macro lens and an orange filter, but they’re just “ok” photos. Thanks in advance!

What type of camera are you considering (e.g. point&shoot, pro-sumer, dSLR etc.)?

 

[wcharon]

Lightroom is paid software, or even worse, it is subscription based software. You can get the non-cloud based lightroom 'classic' with a 9.99 a month sub for photoshop or a 1 terabyte cloud based lightroom without photoshop. If you are serious about photography it is very useful, there are alternatives though. DXO Optics Pro is paid software (about $130) that also has the lens correction and Lightzone which is free and open-source but does not has lens correction as far as I know.

What makes Lightzone so useful compared to photoshop or the camera's own software is its catalogue features and ease of use, once you have thousands of photo's it is really handy to have a very good catalogue feature. It is more like a digital darkroom and much easier to use than photoshop because sometimes less is more when you want to have a fast workflow.

Thanks. I will check Lightzone. No Pro here just hobby.