White Balance with Nikon s51c / s50 Digit Cam - Dawn / Dusk vs Sunset
Before you read, please note, I am just another armature digital Camera user !!! So if you are a pro, then simply don’t read this article !!!
Just was playing with Nikon s51c white balance… Thought to blog about it…
One pretty confusing factor many is the White balance, there are many preset options are given, between them we see 2 options as, Dusk / Dawn and Sunset…
What is White Balance ??
To a common man, it is just a term which allows one to adjust the image colors properlly… If you need to know more about it, you may read more about White Balance at Wiki..
There are many Preset options are available for Nikon Digital Camera, such as s51c… Which makes most of us confuse is the choice between Sunset and Dusk / Dawn !!!
With simple testing I found that under both, at morning sunrise or at evening sunset its the Sunset while balance preset which gives us the best results…
Bellow are 2 pictures one of which is taken with Pre-set option Dusk / Dawn mode and another at sutset mode… One may him self spot the difference !!! Do note, that, there were no image editing tools are used with any of this pictures apart from Windows Paint to reduce the image size !!!
1st one is taken with Preset mode, Dusk / Dawn
2nd one is taken with preset mode, sunset !!!
Is this happens with just Nikon s51c ??
Not quite !!! tested with E5200 also… !!!
Once again the bellow 2 are same subject taken with 2 different mode, the 1st one is at
Dusk / Dawn mode and the next one at Sunset mode… !!!
With Preset menu mode Dusk / Dawn (Sunrise)
Taken with preset menu mode, Sunset…
So what to do ??
Personally I have felt, even if it is sunrise or sunset, when using manual preset white balance, Sutset works best for me at preset menu mode for white balance !!!
