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RobertLoui
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953 days ago
 
Any tips on using the White Balance Control?

 I have a Sony Alpha digital SLR and wish to experiment with the White Balance Control.  Does anyone have tips to help me navigate the confusing choices when I switch the AWB off?

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Willtastic
953 days ago
 
Well, I haven't used the Sony Alpha series, but in every other camera I've used you normally just pick a white balance depending on circumstance you're in.  If you know you'll be in a convention hall all day that's full of fluorescent lighting, go ahead and switch to the fluorescent setting.  Most of the symbols on most cameras are self explanatory, but your manual should tell you more.

You almost certainly also have a manual setting, which lets you point at a colorless surface (custom bought "gray cards" are best but a piece of paper or a white wall will work just as well) and have the camera decide for itself.

For ultimate white balance adjustment you can shoot raw, which just stores "raw" light data and lets you adjust the white balance in a program (such as Photoshop) at home on your monitor.

Sorry I can't give camera-specific help, I've only had a Fuji and a Nikon!


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Chuck
953 days ago
 
I would suggest just trying all the different settings where you are and see which you like best.  It's digital, so why not?  Not wasting any film.


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ben-s
953 days ago
 
Shoot RAW if you have the time to post process.
If you don't want to, this might help:

You should have several icons to chose from:
a sun - for sunny conditions
a cloud - for overcast conditions
a shadow - for shaded daylight
a lightbulb - tungsten artificial light
a fluorescent tube - for fluorescent light
a flash - for flash
and a custom setting. - Willtastic explained this above
Select the nearest one to your current lighting conditions.

You might also have a colour temperature setting - you have to dial in the colour temperature. This isn't much use unless you happen to have a colour meter. FWIW though, daylight is approx 5600K, and tungsten is 3200K

In addition to this, you might have a trimmer matrix, which allows you to skew the colour reproduction.
If you can be bothered with this level of tweakery, you might as well shoot RAW, get it roughly right on location, and tweak it later.

Hope this helps
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RobertLoui
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951 days ago
 
Thanks for all the responses and helpful information re: White Balance Control.

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charliem
942 days ago
 
You'll get far better results using the custom setting, though this isn't very convenient when shooting in different light.

Be warned that shooting RAW will give much higher file sizes - ~10mb/photo!



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fbatha
941 days ago
 
Here are some websites I've come across regarding accessories and the rationale for their use with regard to the issue of finding the proper white balance setup fo any camera.

http://www.rawworkflow.com/products/whibal/

http://l7foto.com/2007/05/31/white-bala … ap-review/

I hope they help.

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