My new toy arrived today. It's a Whibal keyring which I got from http://www.rawworkflow.com/. I've heard about it before, I never really took much notice to it till now. I wasn't so sure about it till I bought one and did a fairly simple test. I waited till it was dark, and went for a walk and set my camera to take raw images and took some snapshots of my Whibal keyring.

Went and fired up RawTherapee and then converted my raw into jpgs. One was set to use my cameras AWB and the other was calibrated using the Whibal keyring

Image using camera AWB setting

Image using Whibal to calibrate whitebalance

Here's the original raw file P1180274.RW2, I took it with my LX3.

Overall, I think I'm impressed with it enough to recommend the Whibal keyring. I'm considering in picking up a second one and or with the pocket sized card as well. It's a worthwhile investment since it is an easy way of making sure the colours look somewhat correct without much effort.

I'm almost convinced to start using the RAW mode on my LX3 if it weren't for the fact that I am lazy in doing the lens corrections (since I don't use silkypix or any commercial apps to process RAWs).