I also have my camera's WB locked down. My standard setting for the E-1 is
"5300K -1 Step". However, when shooting in-camera JPEG stuff, especially
indoors, I'll do a custom WB and keep chimping till I get the look I want.
In almost every case, I find that the AWB or even custom WB in indoor
lighting will turn too bluish and ends up looking like the morgue scenes on
CSI.
I have one of those ExpoDisk thingies I found in a bargain bin for something
like $5. It has REALLY come in handy for indoor sporting events where you
can't get a decent WB off of the sodium-mercury-argon-hydrogen-bomb lights
hanging in the rafters. It's nearly impossible to get a correct WB setting
in those environments because you can't find a neutral color anywhere.
Football/Baseball fields are neon green, basketball courts are yellow, and
hockey ice ain't white. If you point the camera at the lights to get a WB,
you'll get an incorrect reading. I've tried neutral grey cards, but the
problem there is reflections which pick up other hues.
My only real rub with the ExpoDisk is that the E-1's manual WB setting works
maybe 20% of the time and gives you an error 80% of the time. Grrr. The
Minolta A1's manual WB function works nearly 100% of the time.
As to AWB, I rarely use it because of the variances between shots. If I
shoot 10 pictures in a row, 3/4 of them will be one WB and 1/4 will be
another.
AG
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