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Originally Posted by jms698

The way I see it there are four ways to white balance on Pentax cameras:

1. Use auto white-balance.
2. Shoot a grey card (or expo-disc) and use that to set the white-balance in post processing.
3. Use the camera's various presets for different lighting conditions (tungsten, sunlight, etc.)
4. Shoot a white surface and use that to set the custom white balance in camera.

Which do you use and why?

I'm interested in people's experiences with using option #4. Does white balancing "out in the field" work as well as in post? If it does, that might save me some time at the computer.

1. I use AWB as the default setting on my K10D - and shoot RAW only, so it does not matter much if it is not perfect.
2. I have not yet done this. I do, however, use the white balance eye-dropper in Lightroom when things look not quite perfect to my eyes.
3. I have used the tungsten setting when appropriate, but only so that the LCD display looks better.
4. As with #2.