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Subject: [Leica] M9 color balance
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 20:40:09 -0700
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Because there may not be one correct white balance? e.g.indoor with
multiple light sources.

That's besides the point though, the point is that the raw file data
is not changed, whether it's WB, or cropping, or dodge and burn etc.,
if you use something like Lightroom, Aperture or something similar.

On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Robert Meier <robertmeier at usjet.net> 
wrote:
> Why on earth would anyone want to change the white balance again and again
> in post processing?
>
>
> On Aug 13, 2011, at 10:33 PM, Richard Man wrote:
>
>> That's the beauty of a raw file, even if the WB setting is tagged to
>> the file, it does not change the data in the file itself, so you can
>> change it again and again in post processing.
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Not true. I saw the rendering of the DNGs three ways. First, which an
>>> application called "Just looking" which directly displays a DNG", second,
>>> a
>>> contextual menu on the Mac which produces something called "Quick Look"
>>> whose appearance is the same as the first thing I just mentioned, but it
>>> works quicker, and, third, the appearance in LR3 before I apply any
>>> corrections.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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