Digital BW, The Print

Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
>  > 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
> Paul                mailto:pderocco@...
> 
> 

It's a typical step when measuring the WB manually.

-Adam