In a message dated 9/27/2005 6:57:02 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Questions: Is any quality lost when converting or adjusting the white balance in the converter? Might it be better/simpler just to leave the camera set to auto white balance? Would so doing have any negative effects - greater battery drain, slower shooting, whatever?
Shel ============ I pretty much leave mine set on auto WB most of the time. Mainly because I kept forgetting to keep resetting it (since it was new on digital, not something I was used to setting). So outdoor shots I took at GFM 2004 I had set at tungsten or shade and they came out blue. The one exception to that is maybe I will change for tungsten or fluorescent. But then I HAVE to remember to set it back. Paul or Rob or someone said there was a tinge of quality loss with the wrong WB set (or something like that). But most of it can be corrected in RAW. And auto WB works pretty d------- well. Also, one of the first things I did with a DSLR was take the same scene with all the different WB settings to see what they did. How they affected the picture. I took a scene outside. I've been meaning to do the same thing inside. But never got around to it. Then I printed the pictures up on a sort of contact sheet to compare them side by side. This was recommended in some book I had (oh, right it was a free online CNet course), on how to get familiar with your digital camera. I found it interesting to see how the different WB settings shifted the colors from bluer to reder. Or vice a versa. HTH, Marnie aka Doe
