Digital BW, The Print

> From: Jeff Medkeff
>
> It encrypts user-specified white balance. If you tell the camera you are
> shooting under tungsten, or if you set a custom white balance to deal
> with unusual lighting, that information is encrypted. This information
> does not come from the sensor. So Nikon is encrypting creative data that
> the photographer inputs into the camera's computer manually, and
> separately from taking an exposure.

On the other hand, when people shoot raw, they typically don't even think
about things like white balance that have no effect on the raw data. At
least they don't if they understand what raw is.

I can't see any very good reason to set a white balance value in the camera
before shooting, rather than setting it afterwards while looking at the
image on a computer screen, if the only thing that that camera setting does
is establish the default value for the conversion in the computer.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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