If you are shooting in RAW (NEF) mode, the camera's WB settings will have
no effect.
Thanks for the response... but that's not my understanding of how RAW works. I've only been shooting RAW (and experimenting with different in-camera WB settings) - I haven't even tried jpeg yet. The RAW files open in Capture with a WB tag that indicates the setting used at the time the shot was taken. Otherwise identical shots taken with different in-camera WB settings open with their respective tags and visibly different white balances, so the camera's WB settings do have an effect. Unless I'm missing something?
I suppose my confusion could be summarised this way:
- why does a 'flash' WB setting - nominally around 5400k - not appear the same as a 'daylight' WB setting altered to 5400k in Capture?
- why does Capture 4 appear to have a completely different 'flash' WB setting from the D100's in-camera 'flash' setup?
I have the feeling the answer, in both cases, is that white balance is affected by both colour temperature and hue, and that the preset options - in-camera or in Capture's menus - tweak both to suit the light source. And in the second case, either that there's a bug somewhere... or that Nikon has altered its basic 'flash' WB setup. But I'd appreciate input from other list members...
Regards
Seb Rogers
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