This article never in any way said weather a white balance had an effect or
not on the RAW file, however there was an article in, I believe it was
Digital photo pro magazine which did say that the white balance that was
chosen did have an effect on the RAW file and showed examples of how this is
good and bad for the conversion, so now I guess we need to decide which
article to trust one which did not take a side or the other which did, for
me I will continue to do custom white balances on all of my RAW files when I
shoot them.
Terry L. Mair
Mair's Photography
158 South 580 East
Midway, Utah 84049
435-654-3607
www.mairsphotography.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Spirer" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
<photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: ExpoDisc: Overpriced gadget for suckers?
This isn't something there is any question about it. There's an article
about an optics engineer and photographer here:
http://www.photo.net/learn/raw/
that shows how it works. There's a hundred other places to get the same
information. RAW comes off the sensor without any settings applied. That
means white balance settings don't matter.
At 08:20 AM 10/12/2005, Terry wrote:
All I can say is look it up or better yet try it your self!
Terry L. Mair
Mair's Photography
158 South 580 East
Midway, Utah 84049
435-654-3607
www.mairsphotography.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Spirer" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
<photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: ExpoDisc: Overpriced gadget for suckers?
This is incorrect. White balance is applied by the camera only when
creating a jpg. The RAW data is unaffected by the white balance setting,
which becomes simply header information for the converter.
At 07:09 AM 10/12/2005, Terry wrote:
I guess what I am trying to explain is that lets say you take two
pictures exactly the same except you use different white balances' when
you create them you will not necessarily get the same result using the
raw file converter to "Fix" the white balance weather you have a
properly exposed file or not.
Jeff Spirer
Photos: http://www.spirer.com
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Jeff Spirer
Photos: http://www.spirer.com
One People: http://www.onepeople.com/
Surfaces and Marks: http://www.withoutgrass.com
