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What is "Foveon Blue"?

Started May 26, 2014 | Discussions thread
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Re: What is "Foveon Blue"?

xpatUSA wrote:

SandyF wrote:

And what is the correct WB for a blue sky?

A Laurence-type answer, but in 2 words rather than one, [lol]

"It depends" or 3 words "Consider the illuminant"

I should asked a less terse question, sorry. If I point my cam directly at a clear blue sky and don't care about anything else in the scene, then what is the correct WB? It's a similar question to one I posted long ago elsewhere about watch luminous paint shot in the dark or a single traffic light in the dead of night. There were some quite varying opinions about that.

A semi-serious question but I used to those kind of watch pictures quite often and - me being me - I just had to ask. Not really a question for here, anyways - more for the technical cognoscenti, eh?

The technically correct white balance if there is nothing in the image but sky is for the sky to come out neutral grey.

As soon as you bring anything else such as a cloud into the picture, this changes.

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