William Sommerwerck wrote:
"Leonard Caillouet" wrote in message
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"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message
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As I pointed out earlier, the LCD is a great way to fine-tune the color
balance in real time.

Just shoot in RAW.
The colour balance is just a filter applied post shot to the RAW data.
You can then adjust it to whatever you want in the viewing conditions
you want when you "develop" your pictures.

True, but what if you want or need to use the JPG immediately?

My Nikon D60 has a raw+jpeg mode, and I think many others do as well.
With the size and speed of memory these days, it is not a big deal to
store
both. I do this for my son's baseball games and zip up the jpegs and send
them to the other parents and if someone wants more versatility to tweak a
particular image I send them the raw file.

I find it interesting how people -- carelessly, if not deliberately --
misread posts.

I was making the point that Live View is a good way to get accurate color
balance at the time the photo is taken, especially under light sources
without continuous spectra. The issue is not whether a camera can take raw
and compressed images at the same time, but whether one /needs/ a properly
balanced JPG image /right away/. This is impossible with a raw file.

And how would you suggest that someone gets around that problem? It's
not always practical to shoot a white card & create a custom WB at the
time. (And in my case, I can't do it because the light's changing too
fast to get a useful WB from a white card anyway.)

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