zoombrowser's white balance tool

[bruin70]

the white balance tool in zoom browser is off,,,,,gives a reddish photo a slightly greenish cast.

at first i thought maybe the pixel i clicked on was slightly off white. but i clicked on two whites, one from a grey scale and one from a color scale, and they both resulted in the same correction.

the manual WB in my G3 is very accurate.

are softwares generally like this or is the WB tool in zoombrowser bad?

also, the reddish photo i tried to correct is VERY reddish(i experimented by using an inappropriate WB preset for the lighting i shot in). so are there limits to what a software WB can do, ie, was my sample photo possibly too extreme? does software WB handle only slightly off color images?

thanks

[marcel wouters]

If you have the chance to shoot a gray scale card in your picture don't adjust on the white pad!
Choose the standard mid gray 18%, the white areas catch the reflection cast much more than gray areas giving a bad balance. This often occurs when shooting with bouncing flash on a non white reflector.
Also i prefer to use FVU to convert pictures!