when shooting indoors with my g3 what white balance setting should I use if I am using a 420 flash? flash or automatic or flouresent white balance setting since the place has flouresent lights that I will be shooting in.
biggin Member 160 posts Joined Feb 2004 Location: outside of the smoky mountains More info | Nov 02, 2004 23:52 | #1 when shooting indoors with my g3 what white balance setting should I use if I am using a 420 flash? flash or automatic or flouresent white balance setting since the place has flouresent lights that I will be shooting in.
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Andy_T Compensating for his small ... sensor 9,860 posts Likes: 5 Joined Jan 2003 Location: Hannover Germany More info | Nov 03, 2004 02:46 | #2 Best advice would maybe be to shoot in RAW mode ... then you could change the WB afterwards. some cameras, some lenses,
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sdommin Goldmember  1,206 posts Likes: 2 Joined Dec 2002 Location: New Hampshire More info | Nov 03, 2004 08:50 | #3 biggin wrote: when shooting indoors with my g3 what white balance setting should I use if I am using a 420 flash? flash or automatic or flouresent white balance setting since the place has flouresent lights that I will be shooting in. You should use "daylight" (or sunny) WB, because that's the color of the light coming out of your flash. Most cameras will automatically change the WB for you when you turn on the flash (not sure about external flashes, though). Scott
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S45_fornow... Senior Member 530 posts Joined Dec 2003 Location: NC, USA More info | Nov 03, 2004 10:02 | #4 The G5 has a white balance setting for "Flash". Not sure if G3 has it also.
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Nov 03, 2004 15:20 | #5 white balance
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S45_fornow... Senior Member 530 posts Joined Dec 2003 Location: NC, USA More info | Nov 03, 2004 16:02 | #6 i would experiment some with the different wb settings for use with your external flash. heck, the worst thing that could happen is you end up with some bad shots that are easily deleted from your cf card.
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joeyjoeyjoey Senior Member  350 posts Joined May 2004 More info | Nov 04, 2004 16:43 | #7 Andythaler wrote: Best advice would maybe be to shoot in RAW mode ... then you could change the WB afterwards. I agree this is the only way to shoot.
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