I believe the auto setting is quite good. Better perhaps is using the optional manual setting by measuring off a proper grey card. It's quite easy and very useful for studio work for instance. (Should this be an ordinary grey card BTW? - AFAIR any neutral grey or white can be used successfully).
Shooting RAW does allow you to correct the WB/Colour Temperature later. That is of course only postponing the problem, isn't it? Another method to correct colours is by using the pipette in Photoshop CS (levels) to determine "neutral grey". I do this a lot. all the best Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 10. marts 2005 04:12 Til: [email protected] Cc: Paul Stenquist; Bruce Dayton; Rob Studdert Emne: Setting White Balance (was: NorCal First Pic) I just noticed that the white balance was set @ 4450 for every shot I took - about ninety. That tells me that perhaps Bruce had set the WB at that level for some reason and, of course, not knowing squat about WB, the tones of the pics are all over the place. So, how important is the proper WB setting? I know it can be adjusted in the RAW converters, but does the image suffer in any way because of it? What's the best way to set WB on the istD? Use the auto feature or try to set it by estimating the color temp of the light. Shel
