Shooting colourful neons at night

I know that the best way is to shoot in RAW but because of the limited space on my compact flash card (2 x 512Mb) I want to shoot in large JPEG.

I will be away from home and a lot of pics to take. My question is what WB to use, AWB or K and if Kelvin what whould be the closest number. I assume for this type of light I would use 2900-3200K. Is there any other tip that you would like to share?

mel2003 said:

I know that the best way is to shoot in RAW but because of the
limited space on my compact flash card (2 x 512Mb) I want to shoot
in large JPEG.

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Get one of the portable disk drive units for copying CF cards and this becomes a non-issue. I recenly got an Image Tank G2 and so far it seems to work just fine. No frills, but does the job and a 60gig unit is only 1.5 times the cost of a 1gig Microdrive.

mel2003 said:

I will be away from home and a lot of pics to take. My question is
what WB to use, AWB or K and if Kelvin what whould be the closest
number. I assume for this type of light I would use 2900-3200K. Is
there any other tip that you would like to share?

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Get an Expodisc. Shoot a reference shot with the Exopdisc and use that for your custom white balance. You don't even have to keep the reference shot; when you select it in the menu on the camera the camera loads and saves the WB info in its NVRAM (or whatever they're using) and you can then delete the reference shot.

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