On Dec 27, 2005, at 7:51 PM, Rob Studdert wrote:
White balance.
That's only significant if you're storing JPEGs in-camera. The white
balance setting does nothing with respect to altering a RAW format
capture since white balance is evaluated and fixed at RGB conversion
time.
Of course however it's significant given that we were discussing
the in camera
histogram and the saturation blinkies. Both these indicators are
affected by WB
regardless of the output mode due to the fact that they are the
derivatives of
an in camera generated jpeg.
I leave white balance on AWB and have learned what the blinkies mean
with respect to RAW capture exposure dynamics from that take on the
in-camera JPEG rendering. Same goes for the histogram.
Far as I'm concerned, it doesn't pay to try to worry too much about
precision with these displays. They're not designed for precision
analysis, they're useful as an interpretable guide and that's about it.
Godfrey
