Sony DSC H2 White Balance Trouble

[TWallace]

I just got my new camera today and have been playing around with it. With all my lights on, the camera took some nice shots, like these:

However, when the white lights went off and just the actinics were on, I could not get the white balance adjusted. All the pics come out extremely blue. I've gone through the manual and tried adjusting it according to the instructions, but nothing happened. Still mega blue:

 

[TheVillageIdiot]

hello, i believe this camera can shoot in RAW format, correct?

do so and use any RAW editor to have much more control over your WB.

free version of essentials

 

[TWallace]

I'm actually not sure that it does have a RAW mode. I'll look into it though when I get home tonight.

 

[Blazer88]

I looked up the specs and it doesn't do RAW. Do you have photoshop? You can make some easy color corrections to fix the blue hue.

 

[TheVillageIdiot]

dagnabit!

 

[TWallace]

Yeah, I've got Photoshop 6 at home, which should be good enough. I've also read through one of the tutorials linked in a sticky thread that recommended using a Kalk lid inside the tank to do the white balance setting. I'm going to try that when I get home.

 

[TWallace]

Well I had no luck using the Kalkwasser lid technique to adjust white balance. So I tried using Photoshop to adjust it. Here's an unedited pic:

And here it is post-editing:

There still appears to be too much blue, and too much contrast, but I couldn't get either one down lower very easily.