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Message: <blockquote data-quote="T-Man" data-source="post: 475781" data-attributes="member: 22038">If I'm understanding you correctly in that you're claiming that in-camera WB settings have no effect on RAW files, that's just not true. I shoot in RAW exclusively and always have, and I've taken many series of shots with varying WB settings, then imported into Lightroom and they have very distinctly different tints/color temps. It's true that the "Vivid, Landscape, Portrait, etc" camera profiles don't affect RAW files, WB definitely does.As for "custom WB in the camera, on a white or gray card, or through a coffee filter or expodisk...It's pretty fiddlely diving into camera menus, and still an in-camera method..." with all due respect, this tells me you've never actually used the Expodisk with a current generation Nikon camera, as there is no diving into camera menus at all. You simply press and hold the WB button, snap the Expodisk over the lens, and press the shutter button while aiming at the dominant light. That's it. It literally takes less than 10 seconds, and I have proven to myself that it is more accurate than AWB. It also does indeed affect RAW files. I just took a course by photographer David G. Maynard, a very well-known and respected portrait photographer, and he proved in the class without a doubt that it absolutely affects the RAW files in-camera and is the most accurate method of setting WB of the other in-camera options.This doesn't mean WB will never need to be adjusted in your PP RAW editor, but it's best to get it as correct as you can in-camera before you get started, especially when dealing with skin tones.</blockquote>

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