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Warm Red Hue with 717 Indoors

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jrouss,

When the flash fires, the light it emits will pretty much override any other light in the room. Therefore, Sony will key off that light and set the white balance to it. You can't set the white balance yourself because Sony overrides it if the flash is used.

David Clark
jrouss said:
When using the flash what determines the white balance? A flash
sensor? Can someone explain this please, I always thought it was
the set whitebalance.
Thanks
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There is clearly problem in handling of red in the picture.
May be the preflash WB metering is OFF too much.

Even the white point is shifted to warm side. Not a very good sign though.
Any other opinion from experts ..?

sudeep
David Abramson said:
I've just upgraded to a Sony 717 from my Coolpix 990. When
shooting indoors with flash my reds are way oversaturated. I am
shooting with a flash as a fill but find that I get the same
results in A/S/M/P modes. White balance is set to auto. Overhead
lights are on.

Any suggestions much appreciated.

Sample image:

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David Abramson said:
I've just upgraded to a Sony 717 from my Coolpix 990. When
shooting indoors with flash my reds are way oversaturated. I am
shooting with a flash as a fill but find that I get the same
results in A/S/M/P modes. White balance is set to auto. Overhead
lights are on.

Any suggestions much appreciated.

Sample image:

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http://www.pbase.com/image/5876978

Hi David; I used auto in Digital image pro.
 
dave clark said:
probepro,

Now we're talking. Looks pretty good to me, even with the yellow
cast.

I haven't had time to do my own white balance tests with my new
F717 but I want to investigate something that has me interested. I
have taken some indoor shots under incandescent lighting with the
incandescent white balance set, and the results were on the yellow
side. But when I looked at the picture on my monitor and looked at
the real colors in the room, the camera got it exactly (well,
almost) correct.

In the room where I took the pictures white paper really didn't
look white. Now, if I manually set white balance against that
white paper, would the camera try to make the room look whiter than
it really is?

The question I want to know is whether people want a picture to
have absolute white whites or have a picture that reflects the
actual white as viewed with the eyes. Sometimes a yellow cast
picture may actually be true to the reality of what the camera saw.
Then the question becomes what are we trying to achieve -- a bright
clean picture or a reflection of the real colorcast under those
lights?

David Clark
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Dave, as the photographer, it's whatever affect you want. Most of the time rendering natural colors is the goal, especially where skin tone is involved.

Sony's WB presets are not very accurate compared to the excellent custom white balance. If you are doing custom WB properly, and the color balance (not saturation) is not true, then it is your monitor or printer that is off.

Chuck
 
Set shutter time to less than 1/50 second or use nightframe modus with automatic. But it wont help a lot. The red effect is the most known weakness of the cam.
David Abramson said:
I've just upgraded to a Sony 717 from my Coolpix 990. When
shooting indoors with flash my reds are way oversaturated. I am
shooting with a flash as a fill but find that I get the same
results in A/S/M/P modes. White balance is set to auto. Overhead
lights are on.

Any suggestions much appreciated.

Sample image:

Click to expand...
 
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