White Balance Question - Basic Goal?

[peety3]

So as long as you shoot RAW then it's not so important to get the WB "right" (closer than Auto at least) at capture?
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One of the benefits of getting WB close to right up front is if you're using flash: getting the flash's white balance to match your ambient lighting. Fixing this in post is much tougher than just correction for auto or wrong WB with one/uniform ambient light source.

[SupraSonic]

RaW


AWB depends to adjust take a picture of a "WHITE PAPER" if the colour incorrect adjust the Kelvin and take a shot on people or scene or landscape if its too blueish adjust to a hiher number if its too brownish adjust to a lower number.

[Johnny Rasmussen]

May I also add that you sometimes can "blow" one of the colorchannels if you are shooting with a mixture of different lighsources, especially the red channel can be blown/clipped when shooting indoors with low colortemperatures. The WB presets could not prevent one of the channels to get blown/clipped. I needed to set a manual whitebalance to fix the problem. A reference card is a great solution.