setting white balance to 'daylight' while tethered

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• November 03, 2011 16:56

With the Phase One DF & P45+ tethered to capture one 6 - I understand the method for using the eye dropper to select a neutral grey when tethered - but it can be tricky to find a neutral grey if I'm shooting landscapes and locations. Ideally I just want to select eg 'daylight' WB and shoot (as I would do if I was untethered). Then tweak later in capture one.

However any options for this are greyed out in Capture One, seems like its insisting I use the dropper method. Is there a way round this?

Thanks in advance.

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  Paul Steunebrink

  • November 03, 2011 18:19

  Suggestion: in the white balance tool select Daylight after the first shot. Next, in your Next Capture Adjustments tool, select Copy from Last.
  
  Also, in the Camera tool, set the Balance.
  
  And probably you can set this in the P45+ back as well.

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  PhilAylen

  • November 04, 2011 10:34

  Have you considered taking a grey card or similar with you that you can shoot in the first frame? I use a Lastolite XpoBalance whenever I think I'm going to struggle to find a neutral grey.

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  Permanently deleted user

  • November 04, 2011 12:07

  Thanks for the answers. Maybe I didn't explain myself so well - the problem was that the options for changing the white balance in C1 are greyed out when I shoot tethered. I had tried selecting 'copy WB from last shot' and 'default WB' but still all greyed out. This was correct as the last tethered shoot I did I had set a custom WB. The various tools mentioned by Paul are all greyed out. The back gives me no option to choose 'daylight' when tethered - only various custom WB's.
  
  However I managed to 'unstick' this situation by shooting a frame untethered, downloading via card, then using copy WB from last shot. A bit clumsy but hey...
  
  I do carry a grey card - but my whole thing was i didn't want to select a WB using the custom method - just wanted to set 'daylight' - a setting I knew would give me a reasonable starting point for the landscape i was shooting (which has no foreground hence the grey card is of little use).

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