eboyer7
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Hi. I have a Canon A720 IS and I was recently photographing a 360 by 180 degree panorama of a room in my house, so of course I set my camera to full manual control to make sure the exposure, aperture, white balance, etc are the same for every picture. The panorama turned out pretty good, except for the white balance. Even though I had set the white balance to "Tungsten", the white balance was moderately different from one picture to the next. Anyone know why this happened? Shouldn't the Tungsten setting (or any other white balance setting) set the white balance to a fixed value and not change from one image to the next?
After discovering this problem I instead used the custom white balance setting and, thankfully, every image had exactly the same white balance. So, I guess I'll be using custom white balance for now on when I need photos to have exactly the same white balance.
If anyone wants to see sample photos then I could upload them, but if you have a similar Canon then you can probably see this effect by setting the camera to a particular white balance and moving the camera from areas of very different lighting and colour (for example, I went from a bright, light blue area to a dark brown area and saw the white balance changing).
-Eric
After discovering this problem I instead used the custom white balance setting and, thankfully, every image had exactly the same white balance. So, I guess I'll be using custom white balance for now on when I need photos to have exactly the same white balance.
If anyone wants to see sample photos then I could upload them, but if you have a similar Canon then you can probably see this effect by setting the camera to a particular white balance and moving the camera from areas of very different lighting and colour (for example, I went from a bright, light blue area to a dark brown area and saw the white balance changing).
-Eric