AWB vs film photography

mtkang

« on: October 08, 2010, 04:55 »

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Hi all,

I got a question about AWB auto white balance in digital camera, basically it is a change of color tones to make the white is white, so the camera will use its intelligence to auto adjust for us if we set as AWB. am i right? correct me if i am wrong.

how about in film photography? there is nothing to change unless u add a color filter for white balance.

so my question is ... if i want to take the Digital photography like what i did with film photography, what setting i should do? i found out that the AWB mess up a series of photos when weather changes like sunny and cloudy. Is there a way to disable AWB? my camera only has a option like manual WB.

since i take in raw files i think WB is easy to adjust, but i don't want a series of photos that i had same day and come out with different color tone that make it extra job.

thanks.


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rubyroo

« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2010, 04:58 »

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Yes, there should be a setting on your camera somewhere to switch to manually setting the white balance.

Perhaps if you state which camera you use, someone else will have the same camera and be able to take you through the steps(?)

You made need a grey card. Explanation here:

http://www.bargainmemorycards.co.uk/product/lastolite-30cm-ezybalance-custom-white-balance-grey-card-1250

(I have a cheaper one than this - but thought the explanation here might help you).


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mtkang

« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2010, 05:09 »

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i am using a pentax KX...

is there a way to make the DSLR just take the WB as it like film SLR? I didn't really have problem with film photography before for outdoors, even it becomes cloudy, the atmosphere is still captured without funny color.

I am not sure what is missing here..or the lab had adjust for my film output? will film photography WB switch as inconsistency in DSLR?


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leaf

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« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2010, 05:10 »

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I think most film was daylight balanced so there should be a setting to keep your white balance at 5500K, the temperature of daylight. On Canon cameras it is marked as a little sunshine in the white balance settings.


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mtkang

« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2010, 05:19 »

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oic, so if i want to shoot as what i did with film, i should choose a daylight WB. Thanks!

I didn't find AWB helpful at all, i took a series of photos in a trip, and because the weather is changing that day..so the wb is different. i can adjust it in raw format but i would prefer to get consistent results and easy to adjust for consistency.

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etienjones

« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2010, 05:48 »

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Quote from: mtkang on October 08, 2010, 05:19

Quote from: leaf on October 08, 2010, 05:10

What might be easier to get the same white Balance for a group of photos is to load all RAW images at once into Camera Raw. Top Left select "Select All" and set the White Balance. Now the WB is set for all of those images. Now you can individually select one image and continue to correct that Raw image. The WB will already be set.

mtkang, you said: "i don't want a series of photos that i had same day and come out with different color tone" . . . . . so that is how I would do it.