Why does digital need white balance setting?

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I never had to set any such on my 35mm.

-- bill (this_old_house@pobox.com), September 02, 2000

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And you never noticed the 'orrible green cast when you used daylight film under fluorescent lights, or the nice murky orange with domestic filament bulbs?
White balance is an electronic CC filter, that's all.

-- Pete Andrews (p.l.andrews@bham.ac.uk), September 04, 2000.

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