I had not thought about it, but I think you are correct. I think that
all manufacturers give the usual red-orange appearance of daylight
film in tungsten light when on automatic. Probably it is on purpose.
Some do allow a pretty good correction if you choose the incandescent
setting though. My Nikons have always been close with incandescent WB
if you made the setting and Phil's test of the new D80 demonstrates
that. I did not check for other cameras.
It seems like it would be nicer if automatic WB worked for all
settings and use a special setting for the orange look though. Now
that I think about it some more that might automatically clean up the
color in sunset shots which would not be so nice. So their solution
is probably the best.
Winsor
Long Beach, CA
USA
On Sep 26, 2006, at 6:02 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> So many cameras do poorly on incandescent white balance whether
> auto or
> the incandescent setting that I don't believe it's an "error". I
> think
> it's delibate and mimicking what people have come to expect in having
> their daylight film night shots exposed indoors partly by flash and
> partly by incandescent lights. Phil can complain all he wants
> about the
> incandescent white balance issue but I don't think most of the
> manufacturers have any intention of listening. The camera's settings
> are for the masses. Those who really care will use raw or otherwise
> closely control the light.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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