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Struggling with white balance
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<blockquote data-quote="Chucktin" data-source="post: 753384" data-attributes="member: 44180"><p>Don't forget that a camera is not a set of eyes. In a mixed light environment the record a camera makes reports and displays as accurately the manufacturer and your presets allow.</p><p>A grey card is termed "middle grey" because it reflects light in the middle of an approximate of the human visual spectrum. The weasel words are approximate and reflect.</p><p>Also I would use (carefully!) a white reference not a grey one. In very general terms you can ignore shadows except for very high ISO settings where you'll be dealing with electronic signal noise. And you can accept the cameras native middle grey unless you have deliberately modified it.</p><p>But you ignore whites at your peril. Better to have some highlight headroom than lop off the right, white, end of the histogram. You cannot recover what you've lost.</p><p></p><p>Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chucktin, post: 753384, member: 44180"] Don't forget that a camera is not a set of eyes. In a mixed light environment the record a camera makes reports and displays as accurately the manufacturer and your presets allow. A grey card is termed "middle grey" because it reflects light in the middle of an approximate of the human visual spectrum. The weasel words are approximate and reflect. Also I would use (carefully!) a white reference not a grey one. In very general terms you can ignore shadows except for very high ISO settings where you'll be dealing with electronic signal noise. And you can accept the cameras native middle grey unless you have deliberately modified it. But you ignore whites at your peril. Better to have some highlight headroom than lop off the right, white, end of the histogram. You cannot recover what you've lost. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk [/QUOTE]
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