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Tungsten or not

published by Liveengineer on Wed, 06/27/2007 - 4:46am

What is everyones reasons behind the use of tungsten settings in camera. Is there an advantage or do u just leave it to post processing white balance.

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Submitted by Kalle Björklid on Wed, 06/27/2007 - 5:05am.

The following is true for at least Canon gear:
In indoor concerts and assuming that the AWB will result to a "too warm" image (e.g. you'd constantly tone temperature down at RAW conversion stage) the tungsten WB will make the in-camera histogram more accurate (easier to estimate whether the red channel will be blown), since the WB setting will affect the thumbnail you see in-cam, and the thumbnail is what the camera uses for input to generate the in-cam histogram.

Other than that, when shooting RAW (I presume you are), it's just a number embedded to the metadata of the RAW file and subsequently read by the RAW converter to set the WB where you told the camera to (or where the camera thinks it should be based on its AWB estimation, if AWB is used).

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