WhiBal White Balance Reference Card - Pocket Kit (2"x3.5")
by PictureFlow LLC
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of WhiBal White Balance Reference Card - Pocket Kit (2"x3.5")
Customer Review: Shooting in variety of light?
Summary: 4 Stars
This is an excellent tool to make sure the WB of a photograph is accurate.I use it frequently in various artificial light situations Mine stays attached to my neck strap! Customer Review: A Good Buy
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been using this card for a couple of weeks now and really like it. I can now leave my camera in "auto white balance" and adjust the color in Lightroom with very little effort. I would recommend this item to anyone who is concerned about getting a good color balance. Your camera can be fooled and Whibal will help you make it right!Customer Review: Great, but isn't automatic.
Summary: 5 Stars
When I first got this card, I thought all my white balance problems were fixed. However, as I used it for a few months, it became clear that it is not a dummy-proof solution.
It is imperative that you get a shot of the card in exactly the same lighting conditions as the picture you want to adjust in post-processing. This can be a challenge if you're outside with your kids and you're poking in and out of buildings and the trees are casting deep shadows in an otherwise sunny day. You'd potentially have to get many card exposures for all the various light settings you encounter throughout the day. The immediate surroundings have a large effect, as well. Take the same sunny conditions, and pictures on a grass field will have a different tint than ones taken on parking lot or on a brick road.
I also noticed that chromatic noise skewed my post-processing attempts when I used my software's water-dropper tool. If I happened to pick a pixel that was actually a blurp of chromatic noise, then the WB got terribly skewed. So, I'd either have arbitrarily pick a pixel that looked grey to me or smooth the results with chromatic noise reduction. Best results are had with well-exposed, low-ISO pictures where the card shows up as a uniform, solid grey with as little noise as possible.
Though with the caveats above, I highly recommend this card. It's easy to carry and is a better WB solution than relying on in-camera settings or eyeballing it in post-processing (which works, too, if you can get the hang of it). Remember to constantly take shots of the card and using the lowest ISO and you should get accurate results in post-processing.
Customer Review: Awesome Product
Summary: 5 Stars
I got this card and a digital gray card(the competition). I was reluctant to get this because well, it's one card only, it feels like there's less. Boy, was I wrong. While there are less items(you don't really need the white and black cards), the WhiBal is vastly superior in design and in build quality.
I did however keep the laynard from the digital gray card, it's slightly better and chucked those cards in the back of my closet with my cheap lenses and dead flashes.
I keep this product in my bag at all time, well that is until I pull it out to use it.
Customer Review: Smarter than I am (G)
Summary: 5 Stars
I spent several hours today conducting experiments with this product. Photos with deliberately mismatched (internal) white balances, shots way under and over exposed, shots in a large variety of lighting.
Moreover, I took some using the same lighting in the bedroom where I'd done some cat pictures that were horridly out of balance. Basically, I attempted to duplicate the lighting and use the WhiBal two weeks later.
The results, for EVERY one of my deliberately out of balance, screwed up pictures was utterly outstanding and extremely simple. The Whibal works fine in Photoshop and in Apple's Aperture and with the same ease of use on both the Windows and Mac platform.
Best yet, the wonderful, but unusably out of balance cat pictures were salvaged with no problems whatever. The fact that I could utilize this card, retroactively, to salvage photos that I'd otherwise NOT been able to make work is astounding.
I'd read a large number of reviews on many products, some cheaper, some more expensive. For me, and for my money, the WhiBal is THE answer. I have since ordered one for my daughter.