White Balance

[TrevorW]

Custom or AUtO

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 (Malcolm)]

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 (Robin)]

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 (Mark)]

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

[Benny L (Ben)]

Originally Posted by Marke

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

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 So I set my WB to 5,600K and leave it there

[Marke (Mark)]

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