D100 white balance

[astcell]

Since I have firmware upgrade 2.0 I feel that all my flash images are

heavy blue. I set the white balance to Flash and I am fine, but if I

use the flash and have white balance set to A I may as well be asking

subjet to hold their breath and dim the lights. I took the camera to

Nikon and they gave me a new camera. But the new camera is the

same! I have seen results from other D100 cameras and they look the

same. Funny, my Nikon 990 looks fine, and my first D100 with

firmware 1.1 was fine. What gives?

[david_walker1]

Robert,

 

I've had my D100 for about 2 weeks, and the first thing I did was run a series of tests at different white balance settings. What I found was that Auto was pretty much useless. Way to cool. I've settled on the very common Cloudy -3 for almost all of my Jpegs. The other alternative is to shoot raw and do white balance in the conversion with Capture or Bibble.

 

I don't know why Nikon couldn't get Auto to work right. Maybe its the air pollution near the Nikon factory. I have a Canon A20 point and shoot that has never been off Auto in 2 years with perfect results on each shot. But I'm thankful that the manual settings work well.

[jasonm]

On my D100 I always shoot raw then fix the WB in Nikon View (version 6 is out!). I tend to have to fix 1 out of 10 images.