I would still try out the AWB, the type of lighting WB, and if all else fails, then i'll go for "Pre"
Sweet.. What setup did you use to measure the temperature for pre?
D200 users: Do you usually use the Auto WB?
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Sweet.. What setup did you use to measure the temperature for pre?
I took a piece of A4 paper,place it with the light falling on the paper and took a shot with the lens, and of course with the WB on the 'Pre' mode flashing.
and it came out good, so took the actual shot and there it goes...
I took a piece of A4 paper,place it with the light falling on the paper and took a shot with the lens, and of course with the WB on the 'Pre' mode flashing.
and it came out good, so took the actual shot and there it goes...
Ah so you meter it as long as the light source is different from when you last did it? I thought you metered the WB once and just left it as that, so I was wondering what light source you were using
not familiar with equipment? not confident of skill? no confident of equipment are some reasons to shoot raw. There's a higher probabilty to salvage the situation later with raw. I know some aren't happy with the out of cam jpegs and prefer to process from RAW. Someone previously said processing from RAW is a lot faster than jpegs :dunno:
zac08
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It depends on the shooting space. Right now, I shoot RAW almost entirely and processing time isn't any worse than when I was shooting JPEG. With controls at the RAW stage, I actually do less refining and touch ups after the image is opened on PS.
zac08
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Isn't what Edkoh mentioned in post #42? :think:
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psychobiologist
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the d80 is newer than the d200.. i find the d200 WB more accurate than the d80 
zac08
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the d80 is newer than the d200.. i find the d200 WB more accurate than the d80
Simple.
D200 = Auto (TTL white balance with 1005 pixel RGB sensor)
D80 = Auto (TTL white balance with 420-pixel RGB sensor)
which will be more accurate?
chanjyj
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I do that to capture the orange glow of hotels too.. thought I was the only weirdo when everyone else wanted "correct" colour.
I do that to capture the orange glow of hotels too.. thought I was the only weirdo when everyone else wanted "correct" colour.
I thought like that then would get the correct colour. When a blue or green light shines on someone's face, it should appear blue or green respectively.. Isn't it?
chanjyj
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That's what I did for a company dinner and dance. around 500 people. believe it or not, they turned the whole place into a dance floor with coloured disco lights floating everywhere.
Shutter speed at 5.6 would have bee about 1.5s with all the smoke around. I decided to have my own fun and turn their faces into coloured spots (With slow sync flash I still gave them the human look :bsmilie
That's what I did for a company dinner and dance. around 500 people. believe it or not, they turned the whole place into a dance floor with coloured disco lights floating everywhere.
Shutter speed at 5.6 would have bee about 1.5s with all the smoke around. I decided to have my own fun and turn their faces into coloured spots (With slow sync flash I still gave them the human look :bsmilie
Fun..
I like shooting on Cloudy because it retains the mood of the original lighting.
chanjyj
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Fun..
I use cloudy when using SB-400/SB-800 flash on the D40, indoors in hotel lighting (I think it's tungsten, but I'm not too sure). If no flash is used I use the sunlight setting. Outdoors, I usually use Auto WB.
geraldkhoo
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I would use Auto WB until the pic does not turn out in proper WB... then I'd go and set it manually using Kelvins scale. Usually under complex lighting conditions, I'd go manual.
BTW, has anyone here used Expodisc and is it useful? What is yoru experience using the Expodisc?
BTW, has anyone here used Expodisc and is it useful? What is yoru experience using the Expodisc?
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1991- use slide film. Colour control done by a handful of filters (hit and miss affair) or gray carding (more accurate). Super lei chei.
2003- my first dslr (D70...sniff sniff...i will always remember you), AWB seemed like godsend.
2006- D200, AWB on this makes D70 AWB seem like prehistoric.
2007- Buy Expodisc, changes my entire view on WB, when used properly (not difficult, 5 minutes to learn, 10 secs to do, a few shooting sessions to understand how to use it best), this simple tool will give you mighty accurate white balance.
The beauty is that the custom white balance is stored with each shot in RAW so in (eg) ACR, I can choose to go back to AWB to compare, or tweak it ever so slightly using the colour temp slider. In ACR, you can also go back to any of the factory WB settings if you were going for a specific look (ie you WANT the orange warm cast...).
In short, in the 9 months and 10000 shots with the expodisc, it has consistently outperformed the D200 AWB by a big big margin. For RAW shooters, it is a "highly recommended". For JPEG shooters, i feel it is a "must have" as JPEGS dont have a good consistently fast and easy way to do WB ( I have to employ techniques in PS).
2003- my first dslr (D70...sniff sniff...i will always remember you), AWB seemed like godsend.
2006- D200, AWB on this makes D70 AWB seem like prehistoric.
2007- Buy Expodisc, changes my entire view on WB, when used properly (not difficult, 5 minutes to learn, 10 secs to do, a few shooting sessions to understand how to use it best), this simple tool will give you mighty accurate white balance.
The beauty is that the custom white balance is stored with each shot in RAW so in (eg) ACR, I can choose to go back to AWB to compare, or tweak it ever so slightly using the colour temp slider. In ACR, you can also go back to any of the factory WB settings if you were going for a specific look (ie you WANT the orange warm cast...
).In short, in the 9 months and 10000 shots with the expodisc, it has consistently outperformed the D200 AWB by a big big margin. For RAW shooters, it is a "highly recommended". For JPEG shooters, i feel it is a "must have" as JPEGS dont have a good consistently fast and easy way to do WB ( I have to employ techniques in PS).
geraldkhoo
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1991- use slide film. Colour control done by a handful of filters (hit and miss affair) or gray carding (more accurate). Super lei chei.
2003- my first dslr (D70...sniff sniff...i will always remember you), AWB seemed like godsend.
2006- D200, AWB on this makes D70 AWB seem like prehistoric.
2007- Buy Expodisc, changes my entire view on WB, when used properly (not difficult, 5 minutes to learn, 10 secs to do, a few shooting sessions to understand how to use it best), this simple tool will give you mighty accurate white balance.
The beauty is that the custom white balance is stored with each shot in RAW so in (eg) ACR, I can choose to go back to AWB to compare, or tweak it ever so slightly using the colour temp slider. In ACR, you can also go back to any of the factory WB settings if you were going for a specific look (ie you WANT the orange warm cast...
In short, in the 9 months and 10000 shots with the expodisc, it has consistently outperformed the D200 AWB by a big big margin. For RAW shooters, it is a "highly recommended". For JPEG shooters, i feel it is a "must have" as JPEGS dont have a good consistently fast and easy way to do WB ( I have to employ techniques in PS).
Thanks for the vote of confidence with the Expodisc... I went to get one after reading what you wrote... and it is really effective on mixed or complex lighting situations!
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