[Leica] M9 white balance settings

[imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)]

I pretty much always use manual setting of Kelvin temperature.
Decades of using a Color Temperature meter probably makes that a tad  
easier for me.
Yet the digital instant feedback also provides a quick learning curve.
I enjoy making educated guesses of K? and seeing how close I get.

Best white balance should be achieved using "manual white balance"
with a white card (shirt, napkin, etc) in the light of your subject;
fill the frame with the "white" and click - balance set.

Then of course you can always spend money on the disks and domes.

Bottom line the firmware cannot account for the actual scene:
how much green from the trees, or that large red brick building  
spilling its color onto the subject.

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
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On May 20, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Steve Barbour wrote:

> The current M9 firmware offers white balance settings for  (among  
> others)
>
> daylight, cloudy, shade...
>
> often the actual situation is of course a variable mixture of  
> these .....
>
> does anyone feel up to "illuminating" these choices, and their  
> impact on the image ?
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
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