Originally posted by Culture Can i ask why you do this? Does this setting work under all lighting conditions?
5000K is a very common light temperature - equivalent to midday sun, flash and many high CRI light sources. I use this setting as I work in the studio with flash and many cameras from different makers( Leica,Pentax,Canon,Nikon,Hasselblad,) and I use a fixed WB value so my workflow is simpler, in post processing I correct WB if needed - but I always have the 5000K baseline to work from with colour corrections.
Sometimes, I will change the WB to 3200 or 7600K - I do work with mixed light sources on occasion, and I have colour profiles for both of those settings.
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Originally posted by tuco That is bizarre. I'm at a loss for a reason for why you've gotten such red flesh tones except for a malfunction with the camera's WB or something. If the green shirt is pretty close to actual color then I can't see how the strobes themselves would put out such a color temperature as to create such red skin tones with what seemingly looks like little cast affecting the green.
I agree, it is utterly bizarre. I can think of a possible way for a flash to produce erroneous spectra through overheating and under-charging capacitors. But it would require all the flash units in the scene to suffer from the exact same fault in the same millisecond which is
extremely unlikely. I has to be something going pear shaped with the camera.