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<blockquote data-quote="pforsell" data-source="post: 613936" data-attributes="member: 7240">The weakness of auto white balance is that it's auto. It works moderately well outside in daylight, but anything more challenging and it trips over.Consider a wedding in a church. There's incandescent chandeliers in the ceiling, there's clear windows letting daylight in, there's tainted windows letting colored light in, there's candles, there's painted walls and ceilings. If I am shooting the bride &amp; groom at the altar during the ceremony, every time I turn my camera or zoom in or out, the view changes and the camera decides a new AWB. Sometimes wildly off, when a corner of a tainted window with strong backlight gets in the picture, or when a few chandelier bulbs get in.The net result is that in some images the wedding dress is yellow, orange or pink, in some it is blue, cyan or teal and maybe in some if I'm lucky it's white.Preset WB for important images, AWB for snapshots.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pforsell, post: 613936, member: 7240"] The weakness of auto white balance is that it's auto. It works moderately well outside in daylight, but anything more challenging and it trips over. Consider a wedding in a church. There's incandescent chandeliers in the ceiling, there's clear windows letting daylight in, there's tainted windows letting colored light in, there's candles, there's painted walls and ceilings. If I am shooting the bride & groom at the altar during the ceremony, every time I turn my camera or zoom in or out, the view changes and the camera decides a new AWB. Sometimes wildly off, when a corner of a tainted window with strong backlight gets in the picture, or when a few chandelier bulbs get in. The net result is that in some images the wedding dress is yellow, orange or pink, in some it is blue, cyan or teal and maybe in some if I'm lucky it's white. Preset WB for important images, AWB for snapshots. [/QUOTE]

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