How bad is your white balance?

[Eyal_bin]

Because mine is really bad. I'd say that almost 80% of my photos are off the correct white balance.

I know that this is a known issue with the R-D1 but I want to know how bad is it in other cameras in order to know if I need to send it for a fix.

 

[Trooper]

Don't worry about it. My SLR is set almost exclusively at 5300K°. Seems my white balance was off for for years before I even went digital...

 

[mwooten]

I've never bothered with the w/b on the camera. I tend to fix/adjust in Lightroom.

 

[willie_901]

No mater what you do, if the light comes from mixed sources, there will be a mixture of color temperatures. This is one reason why auto WB appears to fail. If you use a gray card and shoot RAW, you can only eliminate the color cast for the light that falls on the gray card. If there is light with a different color temperature elsewhere in the frame, then there will be a color cast for the objects illuminated by that light source.

 

[gekopaca]

I don't care about WB; I always shoot in raw then post-process the file with LR.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Can you not set either Kelvin or manual?

Cheers,

R.

 

[Eyal_bin]

Thanks all for your replies. I guess I shouldn't take it to bad, it just annoys me that I have to spend more time on post processing in order to get the correct WB...

Roger, unfortunately, the R-D1 has no manual WB controls...

 

[Roger Hicks]

Thanks all for your replies. I guess I shouldn't take it to bad, it just annoys me that I have to spend more time on post processing in order to get the correct WB...

Roger, unfortunately, the R-D1 has no manual WB controls...

Good grief! Thanks for that. When they came out, I never looked that closely, and I never got one for review.

Cheers,

R.

 

[mwooten]

The RD1 does have a manual adjustable white balance. The switch is on the upper-right back part of the camera. Adjustments are then made with, what normally would be, the "rewind' nob.

 

[LCT]

...unfortunately, the R-D1 has no manual WB controls...

Not many jpeg shooters here. Never used this? 😉

 

[krötenblender]

Not many jpeg shooters here. Never used this? 😉

I guess, that's not what was meant. Manual WB, as I understand it, is either setting a Kelvin-Value or take a picture with a WB-cap on front of the lens or from a WB-card and let the camera use that as reference.

What you are referring to is full automatic and five presets, but not manual.

To the original question: I find the WB from my R-D1 quite okay. The colors may be a little warm, but I like it that way. Most times they really good.

Maybe some examples of what Eyal_bin considers "really bad" and what is okay, would help to find more useful answers. Preferably from the same shot: JPEG ooc and a corrected version.

 

[LCT]

Manual controls in the sense of the... manual... right?

 

[krötenblender]

Manual controls in the sense of the... manual... right?

Nope. In the sense of manual WB.

Come on, I'm sure, you know what a real manual WB is. You are of course right, that there are alternatives to the pure auto-WB, and I already knew that and used that. But those alternatives do not have manually adjustable values for color temperature in Kelvin or other adjustable settings.

So right, the manual calls it manual WB, and if you insist: okay, let's call it so. But the manual WB of the R-D1 is the choice of either full automatic or one of five non-adjustable presets. I mean, would you call it manual focus, if you lens had only five different distances to choose from...?

For the sake of correct wording: I guess the thread opener meant a manually adjustable WB with at least a setting for color temperature. And that the R-D1 does not have.

Nevertheless: I'm quite happy with the automatic WB of my R-D1. And where not, I can solve that with software very quick.

 

[fbf]

custom whitebalance vs. manual whitebalance.

 

[krötenblender]

custom whitebalance vs. manual whitebalance.

Sounds like a reasonable wording to me.

 

[Eyal_bin]

Manual controls in the sense of the... manual... right?

Not manual, these are automatic presets... and, the color temperatures for outdoor light conditions do not fit the Israeli sun.

I am shooting with RAW settings. As for the WB issue, I am not talking about a warm tone, I am talking about a complete offset.

For example, in the attached photo named 1 see the original WB (shot in RAW). check the WB fix on the photo named - 1_after_WB_fix.jpg

In my eyes, this looks like a huge offset, doesn't it?

 

[krötenblender]

For example, in the attached photo named 1 see the original WB (shot in RAW). check the WB fix on the photo named - 1_after_WB_fix.jpg

In my eyes, this looks like a huge offset, doesn't it?

Wow... This is really totally off. I never had such a big difference in any of my R-D1-shots, under no light condition.

What lens was that? Did you use any filters? - I can't imagine, that such an offset is normal. However, the corrected version also doesn't look perfectly natural to me.

 

[LCT]

Sounds like you've shot in tungsten mode. What "temperature" do you read on the right?

 

[shashinka-ichiban]

Who cares about WB? Just convert it all to BW and let G-d sort it out 😉

 

[Eyal_bin]

Sounds like you've shot in tungsten mode. What "temperature" do you read on the right?

No as far as I remember it was auto