white balance

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any suggestions for which temperature to use as a standard for the
canon 20d? i set it to 6500 and know that i can change it with my raw
prints but was interested in any pros/cons of a given temp.

tia ...steve

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On 1/3/05 12:31 AM, in article nnpht0liqv6thh64gtp3h6sapq0hf69dni@4ax.com,
"pshaw@emmet.com" <pshaw@emmet.com> wrote:

> any suggestions for which temperature to use as a standard for the
> canon 20d? i set it to 6500 and know that i can change it with my raw
> prints but was interested in any pros/cons of a given temp.
>
> tia ...steve
My experience is that the Auto white balance works pretty well in most
situations. Your question does not say whether on not you have tried this
setting and for some reason had trouble. If you are in a lighting situation
that past experience has shown to produce poor results in the Auto setting
then by all means change it, but 6500 for everything is not the best
solution. And, as you indicate, when shooting raw you can easily change the
white balance when processing - this is as true for raws that are shot at an
Auto white balance as those that are shot at a specific color temperature.
Chuck

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<pshaw@emmet.com> wrote in message
news:nnpht0liqv6thh64gtp3h6sapq0hf69dni@4ax.com...
> any suggestions for which temperature to use as a standard for the
> canon 20d? i set it to 6500 and know that i can change it with my raw
> prints but was interested in any pros/cons of a given temp.
>
> tia ...steve

My suggestion based on my experience with 20D is:

- Shoot with AWB for most situations
- If you can use the custom WB with an 18% grey card - works really well.
- I found that for close in flash shooting, the flash WB settings works
well - but probably no better than AWB
- Tungsten just does not work too well - use AWB for tungsten lighting.

But my biggest suggestion is make sure you shoot in RAW, since you can tweak
WB to anything you want later (including sliding around the color temp scale
to your hearts content).