View Full Version : Custom White Balance
mercurial
27-09-2008, 03:18 PM
Just wondering if you guys use a custom white balance and if you do, how do you set it? I watched a video on the net in which the guy suggests to place a white sheet of paper in front of the subject that you are about to shoot and zoom all the way so that you take a pic of only the white sheet of paper. Then when you set your custom white balance, you select that pic as the white balance. Thoughts?
PeterCH
27-09-2008, 04:28 PM
Just wondering if you guys use a custom white balance and if you do, how do you set it? I watched a video on the net in which the guy suggests to place a white sheet of paper in front of the subject that you are about to shoot and zoom all the way so that you take a pic of only the white sheet of paper. Then when you set your custom white balance, you select that pic as the white balance. Thoughts?
Use it for video. Zoom in all the way on a white sheet of paper with the Panasonic AGDVX100E camera and press the button till it sets the WB.
It works great.
mercurial
27-09-2008, 07:36 PM
Cool. I need to know from dSLR users what techniques they use, but I suspect it would be the same.
ldmelsa
27-09-2008, 08:21 PM
Cool. I need to know from dSLR users what techniques they use, but I suspect it would be the same.
set it to taste
mercurial
27-09-2008, 08:21 PM
set it to taste
:confused:
bwana
27-09-2008, 08:50 PM
No need to bother if you're shooting RAW - just include a grey card in a shot and sort it in post. ;)
mercurial
27-09-2008, 08:53 PM
No need to bother if you're shooting RAW - just include a grey card in a shot and sort it in post. ;)
A grey card?
bwana
27-09-2008, 08:56 PM
A grey card?An 18% grey card http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_card
mercurial
27-09-2008, 09:00 PM
An 18% grey card http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_card
Aah, thanks :)
BigAl-sa
28-09-2008, 07:37 AM
I've never bothered with CWB (only ever used AWB - not Eugene's lot :)), but Bwana's method is a good way to go. Otherwise, you can just take a pic of the grey card and set the WB in the camera for the shoot.
Bwana is right though, RAW has to be the way to go.
mercurial
29-09-2008, 08:06 AM
I've never bothered with CWB (only ever used AWB - not Eugene's lot :)), but Bwana's method is a good way to go. Otherwise, you can just take a pic of the grey card and set the WB in the camera for the shoot.
Bwana is right though, RAW has to be the way to go.
Thanks, and yes, I do plan to shoot in RAW :)
No need to bother if you're shooting RAW - just include a grey card in a shot and sort it in post. ;)
Good technique, use a very similar system.