Hello Shel, Normally the camera is set to automatic white balance and it is taken care of after the fact in the raw convertor. Depending on the convertor, it may look at the camera setting or not. Capture One doesn't bother with what the camera was set to. It has black/white droppers and sliders to adjust white balance and then a batch update to set other pictures to the same settings.
So I just leave it on AWB (automatic) and then set the balance when I am converting. There is no suffering to the image to do it that way. About the only advantage I could see is if the raw convertor used the camera setting as a default, then in some situations it might save some time. -- Best regards, Bruce Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 7:11:35 PM, you wrote: SB> I just noticed that the white balance was set @ 4450 for every shot I took SB> - about ninety. That tells me that perhaps Bruce had set the WB at that SB> level for some reason and, of course, not knowing squat about WB, the tones SB> of the pics are all over the place. So, how important is the proper WB SB> setting? I know it can be adjusted in the RAW converters, but does the SB> image suffer in any way because of it? What's the best way to set WB on SB> the istD? Use the auto feature or try to set it by estimating the color SB> temp of the light. SB> Shel
