Custom White Balance

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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?
 
mercurial said:
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?
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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.
 
No need to bother if you're shooting RAW - just include a grey card in a shot and sort it in post. ;)
 
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.

[edit]Bwana is right though, RAW has to be the way to go.[/edit]
 
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BigAl-sa said:
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.

[edit]Bwana is right though, RAW has to be the way to go.[/edit]
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Thanks, and yes, I do plan to shoot in RAW :)
 
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