K20d: Do I miss something with fixed white balance?

balticview said:

On my job I take a lot of photographs of people with different skin tones and clothes at different focal lenghts with a 28-70 zoom (Its a good opportunity to practise my portraiture skills by the way). Light Conditions are under control and I use a Metz 48 bounced over my left shoulder. All is fine so far.

Because the auto white balance gives me different colours with almost every shot I fixed the white balance at 5500 K. After import to lightroom I get value from 5150 to 5500 K.

Do I miss something or is it not possible to fix the colour temperature?

Thanks for efforts in advance.
bview

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hermanlee said:

what is your setting on Custom Setting #11.WB when using flash ?

if it's already on setting #2. Unchanged and you still have variable WB, then you might have a faulty camera. But if it's on setting #1 or 3, the camera will decide the WB value.

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hermanlee said:

Hi bview,
what is your setting on Custom Setting #11.WB when using flash ?

if it's already on setting #2. Unchanged and you still have variable WB, then you might have a faulty camera. But if it's on setting #1 or 3, the camera will decide the WB value.
I don't have my K20D with me right now but that's what I remember.
Hope this helps.

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Russell Evans said:

Take a look at Custom Setting #12 as well. #2 - Fixed, will keep from adjusting the WB setting.

Thank you
Russell

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