Originally posted by blende8 This is what Gordon wrote:
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The effect of this WB preset is to slightly reduce the gain of the "strongest" channel for that extreme WB so as to avoid clipping, but that has ***no effect*** on the resulting images if the proper scale factors are obtained from the raw data file and properly applied. Thus, there ***is*** an advantage to shooting (including raw) with a WB preset that is close to correct, especially in the case of very "reddish" WB situations such as Tungsten in order to help avoid channel clipping.
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I suppose that does make sense if you are out at the edges of the recordable dynamic range, because there is a lot less "wiggle room" for scaling the values of each channel. Thanks for that. I do run into problems with channel clipping under tungsten light, especially in red or yellow rooms. I'll give this a shot and see if it makes a difference.