Correct me if I am wrong here, but I thought that if shooting RAW white balance becomes irrelevant? In the RAW converter, it will bring the image up and say white balance - "as shot" by default, meaning that no white balance setting is applied to the RAW file. At least that's how I thought it worked, sheesh, maybe I've been doing things totally wrong all this time!
:) tan. Tanya Mayer Photography Brisbane, Qld, Australia www.tanyamayer.com Ph +61 (07) 3315 4549 Mobile +61 0437831247 -----Original Message----- From: Jens Bladt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 13 March 2005 10:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Setting White Balance (was: NorCal First Pic) >Does the IstD/IstDS allow WB to be set in Kelvins? No, it doesn't. But if shooting in RAW-format, it's posible to see the Kelvin value in the RAW converter later. By doing RAW test shots in the different WB settings it should actually be possible to note down the responding Kelvin values - at least when using Phase One. Coming to think of it, I'll try to do this. The user guide has a table/scale, but it's not directly related to the standard settings (pictograms) of the camera. Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Frantisek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 12. marts 2005 14:46 Til: Jens Bladt Emne: Re: Setting White Balance (was: NorCal First Pic) Hi, just to add my few eurocents :-) I don't believe any auto white balance setting is so good. Even on caqmeras with superb advanced logic and 30 000 scenes stored in memory (Nikon D2 series), the AWB gives different and unpredictable results time to time. If shooting RAW, that's not a big problem, but into JPEG it is (please others don't tell me I should shoot RAW then...). For example, I have been shooting an even on AWB and with a series of almost identical shots (in composition), AWB changed by about 1000K, from warmer photo to colder photo. That just increases postprocessing. After that, I found AWB good only in daylight or not critical light. Anything with mixed light (e.g. daylight plus tungsten,...) is a problem for AWB. Does the IstD/IstDS allow WB to be set in Kelvins? That's something I have learned from other photojournalists, when on some events, to set the WB manually in Kelvins. Eventually you will know what under what lighting works best, just like our Cotty, who can tell colour temperature of a light down to 10 mireds just by looking ;-) (videographers usually don't have colour display to check WB before the shoot). Good light! fra
