I’ve decided to try using UniWB for my D3 and D200 to get a more useful color histogram while shooting. This was a bitch to install. Tracking down the proper WB files to load. Figuring out how to install a custom flat tone curve. Getting it setup with the right picture controls on the D3. Figuring out how to load a new custom tone curve on the D200 (since I used to use a different one). Understanding why I want to use UniWB. Figuring out how this will affect my post processing. (I can no longer do RAW+JPG because the jpgs now look like shit. I have to batch a new set of jpgs from the RAWs for proofs.)

I’m also moving to AdobeRGB in camera. This will affect how my automation in Photoshop works. I will need to change my actions. I need to figure out what I’m going to do about CS4 too. I don’t want to but I really, really should. I also noticed that the software side of digital is suck ass. From having to upgrade Photoshop and upgrading workflows and upgrading the RAW developer and Camera Control software… Not only the cost but the learning curve.

As for UniWB, I think this will improve my shooting. Perhaps not by a lot but it puts me more in control of my exposure. And I think I understand what my camera is doing more now. It also makes a lot more work for me. Certainly not point and shoot. I don’t know how my D70 is going to handle the new workflow… if I ever even go back to using it at all. Might switch my 3rd body to a D40.