Digital Home Thoughts: WhiBal Reviewed at Luminous Landscape

"Unlike film, which basically comes with just two colour balances – Daylight and Tungsten, digital cameras and backs can be set to a wide range of colour temperature settings. With film, fine tuning can only be done with the use of CC filters in the field (if shooting reversal stock), or at the printing stage (if shooting negative). But all digital cameras have the ability to set the White Balance through the use of presets such as Daylight, Shade, Indoor, Fluorescent, Flash, etc. In some high-end digicams, and most DSLRs, exact Kelvin temperature values can also be set, although you will find that how each camera reacts to being set to 5700 Degrees, for example, will differ."



Getting the proper white balance is key to getting a good picture. Sometimes the "auto" mode on your camera will do a good job, sometimes it won't. If you're interested in taking steps toward getting better pictures, you'll want to get a tool to help you adjust your pictures for accurate white balance. One such tool is WhiBal, and it seems to be getting good reviews. I took a few minutes and watched the Flash training videos concerning WhiBal, and I learned a lot (the jump shots drove me nuts though!). Worth a look!