White Balance

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Anyone had trouble white balancing. Got the camera in July and white balanced my studio lights using Epson heavy wieght mat paper, it did a good job. Now when I try to white balance a again using my inkjet paper or even a McBeth white card I get a green cast. What Gives.

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I'm going to "assume" that you have tried this several times and are on either the CUS1 or CUS2 settings again when you try to proof the image.
I can sympathize with you because it has happened to me (in the field) that the camera has not "held" the balance after the initial set up.And if you are not careful you will be batch processing a pile of images.I have found the camera to be picky as to the "out of range" settings,that sometimes it will reject then recieve a setting if you try it more that one in the same conditions.
If you are in the studio and have tried this several times and the camera is truely not accepting a simple white balance command well within an acceptable range(well):confused: you minght have a problem with the camera.The only other explanation is in the monitior or the proofing.If the green cast is slight I do know some D1 and D1X users that have similar problems and have set up some batching protocols that take care of the cast in portrait situations, I don't do alot of portraiture so it has not been a big issue for me.I hope you can find a solution if indeed it is a significant color shift,digital is so darn sensitive to color shifting that even if you have one studio light that is afew degrees off in color temperature it can really effect the image.Good Shooting!:D TAE

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Thanks for the reply. I tried 2 different studio lights. I use a Colorvision monitor calibrator. Cust 1 was set the first day I got the camera and I haven't changed it and it looks good. I.m waiting for an answer from Fuji.

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An expo disc alternative

A great way to colour balance is to use a couple of pringle caps,
yes they are from the crisp boxes, they are translucent plastic, join 2 together and place them via a filter ring or just handhold themonto the front of a suitable lens.

Point them at your light source and set the custom white balance as you would do normally, store the info in camera. Try it you will be amazed at how good they achieve a consitant white balance, the good thing about this is they are cheap to make and you can eat the contents!!!!

Regards

Nick