Can White Balancing be turned OFF with the a900/a8

Turned off ?
Why would you want to turn it off. Colors will be unpredictable

It can be set to different pre-set settings (dayligth,tungsten, flash etc) or customized to a fixed temperature in degrees kelvin

Without white balance there is no picture..... so, no.
If you want to turn off auto white balance, you can use pre-sets or use Kelvins.

Not a simple yes/no question. Why do you want "white balancing off"?

So the answer appears to be "No". That's what I thought. I just wanted some confirmation.

XKAES wrote: Seems like a simple Yes or No question to me. Can White Balancing be turned OFF with the a900/a850?

Do you mean ; Can AUTO White Balancing be turned OFF with the a900/a850?

If so , then yes . You can turn off Auto WB and either go to pre-sets or set a manual figure .

As far as I know there is no camera that can have any form of WB control switched off .
Shooting in RAW it's effectively off , to view the image you still have to select a WB , either you decide or you leave it to automatic .
But everything has to have a light colour , otherwise you haven't got an image to see .

It seems we are not quite understanding your question ?

What would be your desired goal of switching all WB control off ?

Edited by neilt3 - 19 December 2021 at 19:46

LAbernethy wrote: as a contrarian I will say "yes". Menu/camera pictogram, column 1 option 6 creative style: option 6 B/W enter

To some extent this is true as the output is a monochrome jpg, but not entirely, the white balance setting (or AWB) will still determine how light/dark blues and yellows show in the final B&W image.

XKAES wrote: So the answer appears to be "No". That's what I thought. I just wanted some confirmation.

Presumably this question is being asked on the back of this thread , using an a850 for infrared ?

If it's so you can review the images on the LCD and can't tell what's going on with a red image , the answers easy .

1 ; set the camera to shoot B&W JPEG's .
2 ; Now set to record images in RAW .

the preview images will be in black and white so you can gauge the images , but the RAW file will keep all the information to process the final image .

White Balance is irrelevant as your shooting RAW .

I'd be interested to know if the a850 can capture IR , as the a900 doesn't .

You can export the raw planes as TIFF from rawdigger.
This is a composit RGB autoscaled to 16bit with a 2.2 gamma curve applied:


Why would you like to have wb off?


Edited by Jonas A-R - 20 December 2021 at 06:50