Yet another White Balance question...

Ok,

I have been playing around in the pool with my Fuji F50fd camera and housing. I have gotten

the basic understanding of using the manual white balance. I also purchased an Inon Z240

strobe and have been able to get the s-ttl functions to work. I will be diving in Bonaire in a

couple of weeks. I was wondering, if I am using the strobe on s-ttl function, would it be better to set the camera to auto white balance, or still manually white balance ?

Thank you in advance for any help.

Jay

Hi

If you are shooting RAW, then you can set "cloudy" white balance, and sort it all out in Aperture or Lightroom, however I don't think RAW file format is an option on the Finepix F50, so it is probably best to shoot WB manually. I believe that this is good practice, and it is easier eventually to get it right on the camera first, anyway.

I have in the past set WB to cloudy and left the WB alone, and balanced on a slate at arms length, but currently I WB each shot.

WB on a patch of reef near you subject, take the photo, review the picture. If not the correct colours, repeat with a different patch of reef. (By far the most fiddly, but best results for me - if the picture is too red, select a pink reef patch to WB on etc..)

You really need to search the manual for your camera as well, in order to set a user definable button to carry out WB, so that balancing is quick to do rather than flicking through fiddly menus.

Cheers

Hal

Check out these other White Balance threads

1 , 2 , 3

Auto white balance if using a strobe. If using natural lighting manual

Ok,

I have been playing around in the pool with my Fuji F50fd camera and housing. I have gotten

the basic understanding of using the manual white balance. I also purchased an Inon Z240

strobe and have been able to get the s-ttl functions to work. I will be diving in Bonaire in a

couple of weeks. I was wondering, if I am using the strobe on s-ttl function, would it be better to set the camera to auto white balance, or still manually white balance ?

Thank you in advance for any help.

Jay