What does it mean when Dpreview says “White balance often excessively orange under artificial light”?

Question

From: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond3100/page19.asp

White balance often excessively orange under artificial light.

Artificial light here may also mean Flash.
Is this something which I should be concerned of if I have to purchase this camera or is this "normal" and can be "easily" adjusted by reading this: How do I properly white-balance my photographs when I'm shooting in mixed-lighting environments? ?

Is this a factor on which one should/may decide not to purchase this model?

Asked by Anisha Kaul

Answer

No it is not a big concern and usually does not mean flash since flash is daylight balanced.

What it means is that when you use the automatic white-balance option, things will come out too orange under artificial light, mostly incandescent lighting.

There are plenty of ways around which mean different amount of work:

• Use Custom White-Balance: You shoot a known white target first and then all your shots in the same lighting condition come out perfect.

• Use Preset White-Balance, possibly with Fine-Tuning: You set the white-balance to current type of lighting which gives you better results but not necessarily perfect.

• You shoot RAW and the white-balance problem is delayed. You then set the WB according to taste or use a known white object (ex: shoot of a reference WB-card) to set the WB to images in batch shot under specific condtions.

Answered by Itai

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