[perardi]

I know I should defend the common user…but c’mon, if you’re going to write an article like this, maybe spend like 5 minutes figuring out why the camera is “struggling”.

Broadly, the camera is doing the right thing here. Nobody developed these auto white balance algorithms to factor in the sky turning orange. The camera/imaging pipeline is seeing this crazy orange cast, assuming it’s deep incandescent light, and then trying to compensate, which is generally what you want it to do.

[blahblah4332]

Exactly! You could measure the collective eye-rolling of all the electronics engineers who work in the photo industry on seismographs around the world. (hopefully overstating the reach of this garbage article)

Edit: Not to mention that the auto WB algorithm out dates smartphones by more than a decade.

[Someone]

Also, before smartphones or even digital cameras, people sent camera rolls to laboratories, and got prints back.

If, in winter sport season, you sent your photos from the Sahara to be developed, chances were you got what looked like snow landscapes back. Conversely, sending winter sport photos in july/august might give you ‘beach with skiers’ photos back (I think that was because of operator error, not automation)

[perardi]

Most of my experience with film was long ago, and mainly through those execrable disposable cameras my family used when I was a kid. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_camera) I doubt there is a single indoor photo of me as a child with the proper white balance.

(Which is for the best. I was an extremely homely child. It's for the good of all we shot with slow, blurry film.)

[blahblah4332]

The fact that you had to add a wikipedia link for disposable cameras makes me feel old

[perardi]

A bit of disambiguation to make clear I wasn’t talking about Polaroids.