Auto white balance?

[Cheeseman]

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Hello all,

A quick question, what’s the view of the M10 aficionados on running with auto vs manual white balance settings?

Is the camera good at making its own decisions?

Cheers,

Richard

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[a.noctilux]

I use mostly auto WB with M10.

Artificial light can be difficult to correct later in post.

With LED lighting, the auto WB is not good idea as the M10 can be fooled, so I use manual Kelvin depending on the main source color.

[adan]

I shoot .DNG, and have my own custom WB saved in the post-processing environment (5000°K, no tint). Which I then change manually in the computer if needed for non-daylight shots.

So I don't really care what WB the camera uses - but set it permanently to Auto just so the back-of-camera images are roughly WB'd.

[evikne]

I think the M10's AWB is very good in most situations. If I want the most accurate colors possible, I use a WhiBal white balance card or an ExpoDisc. 

[scott kirkpatrick]

I've shot indoors under mixed fluorescent lighting using AWB and then checked by clicking on a white poster in the frame, and the result was almost exactly the same.  A case that it might be getting wrong is pure sodium-vapor streetlights.  A reviewer complained about pale yellow coming out white under such (pure yellow) lighting.  Thqt probably is beyond any reasonable AWB, and requires post-processing to get the whites to be white.