Originally posted by Don From The Radio It's a quick fix for JPG too as far as my experience goes.
And my K200D doesn't like to AWB under tungsten light with any lens. Maybe it's the variations in color temperature between different kinds of tungsten light that it just can't handle.
It,s just as quick to adjust color for JPEG as for RAW, but nowhere near as effective in cases where it's off by much - too much info has been lost in the conversion.
As for why many cameras don't produce results many would under tungsten light, that's because the camera is really only guessing at the color of the light based on the colors it sees in the scene. It doesn't know a white rose in orange light from an orange rose in white light; they appear identical. So if a camera were to render the white rose in orange light as white, it would also render the orane rose in white light as white - and then people would be complaining that their pictures in daylight lacked color.