Hi Frederik! You was the first guy that I checked when I bought my D700 as my first camera body before 2 months and you helped me a lot with your videos, because I never had a camera body and everything was so new for me! So... I'm sending you now some help-back for the White Balance! Well, the modes on White-Ballance (WB) are always refered to how cold (more white-blue) or how warm (more yellow-orange-red) you want the colours of your images. Even at the "K" (Kelvin Mode) the numbers you select are refered to this exactly thing, and it is a more manually way to do this from the other modes (because they are working on presets values)! I wish this may help you!!! Try this and tell me! Thank you again for all your videos!!!!!!
Thank you Johnnathan and thank you for sharing! Must admit that I am so lazy a photographer that I just shoot in automatic white balance and then fix it in post if I don't like the look of it. For landscapes I often pull the slider towards a warmer setting than what the camera auto white balance has suggested, but for architecture and stills I am mostly happy with the choices made by auto white balance. Again, thank you for sharing!
@@frederikboving Haha! That's ok!! Thank you too Frederik! I'm finding my self to like more the warmer colours... So I'm setting my WB at most at the Lightning (thunderball) Setting (when I have Sun) or the Shadow (with the House and the shade) for a cloudy day and for a sunny day too!!! haha! I'm getting so beautifull colours for my taste!
I just have been lucky enough to purchase an almost unused D700 complete with the original box and all accessories. I therefore found this video very useful and have started watching all your D700 related content. Thank You!
Thank you Andrew! You'll find them all here (+ some videos about the D700 that I have not made, but found useful): ruclips.net/p/PLPjooVCTLG910wkb8TMrajbIHmA54MJ-A
Not the best if you fill ambient light with flash. OK when you shut out ambient light altogether and you build up your shot using flashes that are of the same color temperature. Or at least your kelvin value matches the key light...
Hi Frederik, I have been useing the grey card as a reference in post for along time and as you say it certainly gets the white balance spot on it is so easy to do it take's away all the guesswork at getting the colours correct.
Thanks for posting this. I still own a D700. Very usable even today. I only wished it had the focus eye detection of the mirrorless cameras but I learned how to live with out it.
Hi Fredrik once again thank you so much for teaching me something new . I knew how to play around with WB but didnt know anything how to use Pre option in WB, I really appreciate your hard work like i suggested before i will appreciate it if you can make video for each feature of the Nikon D700 thats gonna be awesome because there are a lot of photogs out there who own Nikon D700 and they would love to watch and learn at least i am watching :O) and learning thanks to you. Very simple clear information . you can even start with what every buttons does on the front of the camera and back of the camera and how to use or customize them and then you cna go into menu and shooting menu and what ever is in there and give us some shots and explain . and how to shoot in A mode S mode or in manual mode i am sure we all would love that . I guess i am asking a lot but this is gonna be amazing and trust me i searched alto on youtube and i only one detail Nikon D700 full tutorial and you are gonna be the second person adn you can go in to detail and its gonna benefits us all and you can grow your audience and its not only about Nikon D700 its photography in general. and second suggestion is that i never used or had Lightroom but if you start teaching from basic to advance i swear i will buy Lightroom if i decided to take pictures and if i get client and i i can make money i will for sure. Thank you once again for your honest reviews and tutorials keep posting.
Hi Peshawar, thank you! I will get back with more D700 instruction videos! With regards to Lightroom, I do have a series of videos related to post processing and it is a compiled into a playlist. Not sure the videos are very good, but at least I have tried to teach what I know about (parts of) Lightroom. You can find the playlist here: ruclips.net/p/PLPjooVCTLG90Oms828CZ89kJhqqeBOjqt - please let me know if they are useful!
Hi Frederico! Glad it was helpful! Greetings from Denmark (small country north of Germany - many think Denmark is the capital of Sweden :-D ) - all the best!
Federico Dignani Laudrup, of course! And Borgen! Hope you get a chance to visit Denmark when we get to the other side of COVID-19! If you are curious as to what our nature looks like, you can get a taste of it from my instagram profile: @frederikboving. All the best!
Good video. You mention that setting K directly was something you probably wouldn't do, and that it might be a bit esoteric. Thinking about this, my thought was, "well, I could set it and take a photo and then adjust it depending on whether the photo looked too orange or too blue". But that seemed like a lot of work, so it occurred to me that I could change the K value while in Live View. I tried it in a shot that had both warm inside lights and a window letting in overcast daylight. It worked great! Just turn on live view and set the K according to the look you want. I would not have thought of this if not for your video, so thanks!
Thank you Rhett! Great to learn that the video was useful! The credit to set the K-value while in Live View is all yours - I would never have thought of that 🙂Take care!
I usually use an expodisc, shoot a frame with it from subject's perspective and then pick white balance from there for all the shots under that lighting condition. If it's colour critical, then I use the colorchecker card.
Hi Frederik, another well executed video. Just to go back about a month and your video the D700 in 2020 is 12 mp too little? Well we recently added a D2Hs to the collection 4.1mp great images.
Thank you Janis! Just printed a D700 picture in large format, and even going close to the picture, I cannot see an issue with too few pixels, so I am more and more convinced that a "low" pixel count is not an issue at all!
I think the idea behind being able to dial in the exact kelvin number is to match studio lights that output light at a specific kelvin number, 3200 I think is common.
Thanks for sharing F3, I did not know that! Really appreciate you take the time to give comments and help us understand the purpose of the features on the D700! 👌
at first, thanks for your video, and thanks for use this beautiful "old" camera!!! I take photos in studio with the d700 and get the white wall behind actors with temperature like yelow, i did the preset mannualy with a withe papper too, but no work. :( i dk what to do, but this is nice to see!!!!!!! sorry for my english
Hi, if you are using Lightroom, then you can pull the temperature slider to compensate for white balance not set correct. If the white wall gets yellow, try to pull the slider to a lower kelvin value and see if that helps! And next time you calibrate, try using a grey card and not a white paper. It is important that it is truly grey colored card that you use, otherwise the calibration will be off. Hope this helps!
Hi Fredrik, I'm 75 so things take a little longer to sink in !! When you have set the white balance in the pre set(d0) does that setting stay with the camera or when you switch off does it reset ? Also Does this procedure only apply to manual mode or can it be used in A P or S. Excellent tutorials thank you for sharing. Regards Nick G
Hi Nick, thank you for your question! I am not 17 anymore either, so let's be as slow as we want to on this channel 😀 White balance is another dimension than exposure. Hence the PASM selection on the camera will not change the WB. It often happens that I set the WB manually and then completely forget about it. Then I come home with some correct exposed pictures, but some very strange colors! The d0 settings are stored until you make a new reading. That also applies to d1-d4. So nothing is lost when you switch off the camera. You only "loose" it when you overwrite it with a new reading. And the camera remembers your WB choice - it is not reset. Hope this helps! Best Frederik
@@NG-jr4hb Nick, if you want to study things via reading rather than video, I also have a blog: frederikboving.com/ - if you go to the "learning" tab, I think you will find useful stuff there. If there are things missing, please let me know - happy to post more and/or expand.
Hi, the grey card if from Fomito (www.fomito.shop): www.fomito.com/products/fomito-fmthkl-18-white-balance-grey-gray-card-waterproof-custom-calibration-7-5x5-5-inches-19x14cm?variant=32683422941287
@@photoalchemygina I simply cannot find it amongst all my camera gear, but it is like one of these: www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/375212-REG/Lastolite_LL_LR3050_EZYBalance_Grey_White_Card.html - hope this helps.
Excellent video! Nice to introduce the grey cards once again. I had forgotten about them. Check a picture I made on holiday for the amount of detail the D700 can produce. www.flickr.com/photos/148981344@N02/50218346883/in/dateposted-public/ In front of the house you will see the horticulturists.
Hi Frederik! You was the first guy that I checked when I bought my D700 as my first camera body before 2 months and you helped me a lot with your videos, because I never had a camera body and everything was so new for me! So... I'm sending you now some help-back for the White Balance! Well, the modes on White-Ballance (WB) are always refered to how cold (more white-blue) or how warm (more yellow-orange-red) you want the colours of your images. Even at the "K" (Kelvin Mode) the numbers you select are refered to this exactly thing, and it is a more manually way to do this from the other modes (because they are working on presets values)! I wish this may help you!!! Try this and tell me! Thank you again for all your videos!!!!!!
Thank you Johnnathan and thank you for sharing! Must admit that I am so lazy a photographer that I just shoot in automatic white balance and then fix it in post if I don't like the look of it. For landscapes I often pull the slider towards a warmer setting than what the camera auto white balance has suggested, but for architecture and stills I am mostly happy with the choices made by auto white balance. Again, thank you for sharing!
@@frederikboving Haha! That's ok!! Thank you too Frederik! I'm finding my self to like more the warmer colours... So I'm setting my WB at most at the Lightning (thunderball) Setting (when I have Sun) or the Shadow (with the House and the shade) for a cloudy day and for a sunny day too!!! haha! I'm getting so beautifull colours for my taste!
@@johnnathan2149 Sound like you got a great routine there!
@@frederikboving I'm just Amazed! I hold my d700 all day allong on my neck!!! Haha...!!! I am a bit in oved with my new hobby!!
Finally an explanation of why to use a gray card for light balance! Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for the simple, great tips , i love these kinds of videos straight to the point.
🙏🏻🤗
I just have been lucky enough to purchase an almost unused D700 complete with the original box and all accessories. I therefore found this video very useful and have started watching all your D700 related content. Thank You!
Thank you Andrew! You'll find them all here (+ some videos about the D700 that I have not made, but found useful): ruclips.net/p/PLPjooVCTLG910wkb8TMrajbIHmA54MJ-A
One great option in setting the K-Value is when the exact value of a flash is known. This helps also to spot-on the WB when using flash
Thank you B&L - sounds like solid advice to me! All the best!
@@frederikboving I (we) have to thank you for your very well made, very profound and very meaningful videos. I am happy about every single one.
@@black-and-light Thank you for your kind words 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Not the best if you fill ambient light with flash. OK when you shut out ambient light altogether and you build up your shot using flashes that are of the same color temperature. Or at least your kelvin value matches the key light...
Hi Frederik, I have been useing the grey card as a reference in post for along time and as you say it certainly gets the white balance spot on it is so easy to do it take's away all the guesswork at getting the colours correct.
👍
Thanks for posting this. I still own a D700. Very usable even today. I only wished it had the focus eye detection of the mirrorless cameras but I learned how to live with out it.
Thank you for sharing 🙏🏻
Wow, super helpful! Not sure I would've ever figured out the custom WB storage procedure.
Glad it was helpful!
Great video.
Thank you John - much appreciated!
Thanks for useful video. Best regards from Poland.
Thank you! :-D
Very useful
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Thank you very much !❤💚💙
🙏🏻🙂
Hi Fredrik once again thank you so much for teaching me something new . I knew how to play around with WB but didnt know anything how to use Pre option in WB, I really appreciate your hard work like i suggested before i will appreciate it if you can make video for each feature of the Nikon D700 thats gonna be awesome because there are a lot of photogs out there who own Nikon D700 and they would love to watch and learn at least i am watching :O) and learning thanks to you. Very simple clear information . you can even start with what every buttons does on the front of the camera and back of the camera and how to use or customize them and then you cna go into menu and shooting menu and what ever is in there and give us some shots and explain . and how to shoot in A mode S mode or in manual mode i am sure we all would love that . I guess i am asking a lot but this is gonna be amazing and trust me i searched alto on youtube and i only one detail Nikon D700 full tutorial and you are gonna be the second person adn you can go in to detail and its gonna benefits us all and you can grow your audience and its not only about Nikon D700 its photography in general. and second suggestion is that i never used or had Lightroom but if you start teaching from basic to advance i swear i will buy Lightroom if i decided to take pictures and if i get client and i i can make money i will for sure. Thank you once again for your honest reviews and tutorials keep posting.
Hi Peshawar, thank you! I will get back with more D700 instruction videos! With regards to Lightroom, I do have a series of videos related to post processing and it is a compiled into a playlist. Not sure the videos are very good, but at least I have tried to teach what I know about (parts of) Lightroom. You can find the playlist here: ruclips.net/p/PLPjooVCTLG90Oms828CZ89kJhqqeBOjqt - please let me know if they are useful!
Thank you for the video Frederik, it was really useful for me that I'm getting started! Greetings from Argentina!
Hi Frederico! Glad it was helpful! Greetings from Denmark (small country north of Germany - many think Denmark is the capital of Sweden :-D ) - all the best!
@@frederikboving Of course I know Denmark, Laudrup brothers and Borgen TV series. I wish I could visit it someday. Thank you again for the content.
Federico Dignani Laudrup, of course! And Borgen! Hope you get a chance to visit Denmark when we get to the other side of COVID-19! If you are curious as to what our nature looks like, you can get a taste of it from my instagram profile: @frederikboving. All the best!
Good video. You mention that setting K directly was something you probably wouldn't do, and that it might be a bit esoteric. Thinking about this, my thought was, "well, I could set it and take a photo and then adjust it depending on whether the photo looked too orange or too blue". But that seemed like a lot of work, so it occurred to me that I could change the K value while in Live View. I tried it in a shot that had both warm inside lights and a window letting in overcast daylight. It worked great!
Just turn on live view and set the K according to the look you want. I would not have thought of this if not for your video, so thanks!
Thank you Rhett! Great to learn that the video was useful! The credit to set the K-value while in Live View is all yours - I would never have thought of that 🙂Take care!
very helpful - thank you
Thank you Charles!
Thank you
Well done, very informative content 👍
Thank you! 👍
I usually use an expodisc, shoot a frame with it from subject's perspective and then pick white balance from there for all the shots under that lighting condition. If it's colour critical, then I use the colorchecker card.
👍
Hi Frederik, another well executed video. Just to go back about a month and your video the D700 in 2020 is 12 mp too little? Well we recently added a D2Hs to the collection 4.1mp great images.
Thank you Janis! Just printed a D700 picture in large format, and even going close to the picture, I cannot see an issue with too few pixels, so I am more and more convinced that a "low" pixel count is not an issue at all!
I think the idea behind being able to dial in the exact kelvin number is to match studio lights that output light at a specific kelvin number, 3200 I think is common.
Thanks for sharing F3, I did not know that! Really appreciate you take the time to give comments and help us understand the purpose of the features on the D700! 👌
One can enter the Kelvin value from Color Meter as well.
How do you copy the WB to all the other pictures. Can you create a video on Lightroom and how to do that?
On its way...
ruclips.net/video/PrEePG8NJ18/видео.html
at first, thanks for your video, and thanks for use this beautiful "old" camera!!! I take photos in studio with the d700 and get the white wall behind actors with temperature like yelow, i did the preset mannualy with a withe papper too, but no work. :( i dk what to do, but this is nice to see!!!!!!! sorry for my english
Hi, if you are using Lightroom, then you can pull the temperature slider to compensate for white balance not set correct. If the white wall gets yellow, try to pull the slider to a lower kelvin value and see if that helps! And next time you calibrate, try using a grey card and not a white paper. It is important that it is truly grey colored card that you use, otherwise the calibration will be off. Hope this helps!
@@frederikboving ty for answer! ♥ yep! i gonna try the grey next time and the kelvin setup !!!! thx ♥♥
Hi Fredrik, I'm 75 so things take a little longer to sink in !! When you have set the white balance in the pre set(d0) does that setting stay with the camera or when you switch off does it reset ? Also Does this procedure only apply to manual mode or can it be used in A P or S. Excellent tutorials thank you for sharing.
Regards Nick G
Hi Nick, thank you for your question! I am not 17 anymore either, so let's be as slow as we want to on this channel 😀
White balance is another dimension than exposure. Hence the PASM selection on the camera will not change the WB. It often happens that I set the WB manually and then completely forget about it. Then I come home with some correct exposed pictures, but some very strange colors!
The d0 settings are stored until you make a new reading. That also applies to d1-d4. So nothing is lost when you switch off the camera. You only "loose" it when you overwrite it with a new reading. And the camera remembers your WB choice - it is not reset.
Hope this helps!
Best
Frederik
@@frederikboving Thank you Frederik for your reply, fully understood now (that part anyway)
Regards Nick
@@NG-jr4hb Nick, if you want to study things via reading rather than video, I also have a blog: frederikboving.com/ - if you go to the "learning" tab, I think you will find useful stuff there. If there are things missing, please let me know - happy to post more and/or expand.
Very informative and useful. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Hello,what lens did you use in this video ? Thanks.
Hi, it is the Nikkor 85mm f/2 AI. You can find my review of it here: ruclips.net/video/cdiAJLsDX1Q/видео.html
Good mor Nikon d700 vedeos
Will do my best 🙏🏻
what brand and where to get your grey card?? pls?
Hi, the grey card if from Fomito (www.fomito.shop): www.fomito.com/products/fomito-fmthkl-18-white-balance-grey-gray-card-waterproof-custom-calibration-7-5x5-5-inches-19x14cm?variant=32683422941287
Is this he one in the video??
I would like the foldable one
The collapsible one ??
@@photoalchemygina I simply cannot find it amongst all my camera gear, but it is like one of these: www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/375212-REG/Lastolite_LL_LR3050_EZYBalance_Grey_White_Card.html - hope this helps.
i just use WB auto
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Excellent video! Nice to introduce the grey cards once again. I had forgotten about them. Check a picture I made on holiday for the amount of detail the D700 can produce. www.flickr.com/photos/148981344@N02/50218346883/in/dateposted-public/ In front of the house you will see the horticulturists.
Thanks! Yep, I also spot the top of a Land Rover. A 110! :-D