ZWB1 + QB21 2mm deep red light contamination

[ulf]

Avalon wants to learn to white balance himself. Which of course he must learn to do.

I can't explain to you how to white balance in camera with a Sony A3000 camera, I don't have one, and I have no experience with that camera.

 

 

This might help Avalon.

The manual shows how to do white balance is here:

https://www.sony.com...9/44698551M.pdf

Look at page 89 how to do a custom white balance.

 

Good luck.

[ulf]

When preprocessing raw images, a raw-viewer is very handy, even if it do not handle the final raw-conversion to Tiff or Jpeg.

 

My absolute favourite program for this is FastRawViewer. https://www.fastrawviewer.com/

 

It works on both Windows and Mac.

The license is not expensive and there is a free 30-day trial.

 

The program has so far been able to handle white balance well for all different kinds of filters and filter-stacks.

There are some that are more extreme and difficult to white balance than images from UV-stacks.

 

For quick low resolution images I often just take a local screen-shot in the FastRawViewer, as I did for the close-up above.

[dabateman]

You may still be able to get the Sony version of Capture one for free. It will only open the Sony raw files, but that still might help.

https://www.phaseone.com/en/Capture-One/Capture-One-Sony.aspx

 

I was going to say 1.85 is much better than 1.89 S8612, but looks like that silly discussion has ended. Just get a 2mm and be done.

[Timber]

Capture One Express for Sony (the free version) can whitebalance UV files properly and you can do most of your editing in that, then export a 16 bit TIFF for further work in Photoshop or Affinity (my choice for photo editing). But the best is to have white balance set in camera properly, then opening the RAW in Affinity will have the same white balance (unlike PS, which forces a re-whitebalance on the images)