White Balance

[TrevorW]

Custom or AUtO

:help: for DSLR

opinions

[matt]

What are you attempting to photograph?

A lot will depend on the specifics of your situation.

[TrevorW]

For DSO's thanks Matt

[matt]

Most of the advice I've read is to steer away from AWB.

Set it to something like Sunny (Daylight) ...so you have a consistent colour temp for all your subs.

It's not critical, though. CB is something to correct when processing.

[mswhin63]

Wondering if there reference material available that is able to display colour temp used for DSO. That would be a very handy for manual WB settings

[Tandum]

Trevor,
Do you use a light polution filter? If so think how to get this in the setup with a lens to take a photo of either a grey card, available from your local photo store, or a sheet of white paper in the sun.

Snap the shot and save it and lock it, then set that as a CWB.

If your not using a filter that changes the colour, then don't bother.

[Marke]

If you shoot RAW it wont matter as you can adjust it to what ever you want later.

[Benny L]

Even so you want to set it to anything other than Auto.. set it to fluoro, tungsten, cloudy, daylight anything except auto :) Reason being that an auto WB is affected by what is in the image and is never consistent.

As you say it can be fine-tuned in your raw processing software but for me it is easier to have the least amount of variables possible :D So I set my WB to 5,600K and leave it there ;)

[Marke]

Ok just pick a setting :) either way not really life or death what you pick.