? about WB and 50 1.8.....

[WildWolf]

I use my 50 1.8 indoors a lot without the flash. I keep my 20D on auto White Balance and 100% of the time the pictures come out very warm (yellow). I shoot in raw so I can change it in PP but I was wondering if someone had a suggestion on a WB setting when shooting . It will be one less thing I would have to do when PP. Thanks

[stupot]

set it to tungsten? or take a custom wb by taking a photo of a white piece of paper with the light falling on it and using it as your custom wb.

[Livinthalife]

As above is already said, Also try daylight setting. for some reason I get better results INDOORS with DAYLIGHT setting...who knows?? I also have the same prob with my kit lens. is this a porblem that oonly occurs with your 50mm? From what I hear (read) it seems canon has pretty bad auto WB on the XT

[dave_bass5]

I think any WB setting you do in camera will not be enough and you will still have to PP afterwards.
There is a setting on the 350d (so im sure you have it) where you can adjust the colour balance in camera, its called WB shift and it allows you to fine tune the rgb and the settings keep when you turn the camera off.
Im not sure how this would help if you are shooting RAW though.
I used to use it for jpg when i first got my 350d as i felt there was to much blue in the WB using auto indoors but since going over to RAW i dont bother with it.
Also i think you will find that depending on where you are in the room, how close you are to a window or light the colour balance will change
Just my findings

[red hot sheep]

I find I constantly have to use custom WB by taking a photo of a piece of paper - but its no big deal and gives me very accurate looking results.

[Mark_Cohran]

White balance is independent of the lens. As other posters have said, set your white balance to Tungsten or do a custom white balance prior to the shooting under the shoot lighting conditions (this is the most accurate). Warm and cool are subjective terms, and white balance is also somewhat subjective, so whether you'll need to do any additional balancing in post processing will depend entirely on your perception of how well your photos match what you want to see.

Mark

[KravGuy]

Grey card or Coffee filter works for me (Grey card being the preferred method). I shoot RAW as well but find it greatly reduces my PP time if I get the WB right in-camera.

[dave_bass5]

Once you start mixing different light sources then you have to make a choice of what you want to look correct in the shot. if your subject is near a window with light coming in and you have a lamp on in the room you will get some very weird colours.
I find a lot of the time when shooting indoors i use my eyes to WB in C1 so leave the camera on AWB although i do own a WhiBal i dont use it much.

[SkipD]

My experience is that Canon's AWB (automatic white balance) algorithm is WRONG more often than it is right when it chooses the white balance parameters for a shot. Thus, I never use AWB these days. I will either choose a setting that I know will be close for a given light source or use custom white balance.

[MiG82]

I find that the 20D's AWB is good except when compensating for incandescent lights. It's pretty crap then.