D300 problem with white balance

[jcastilla]

i shot this game last Friday night and had this problem with the white balance graduating across the exposure. i did not have white balance bracketing on. i spoke to my camera store and they have never seen this. i sent the picture to Nikon and they are checking but thought it might be the pulsing of the flourescent lighting in the stadium. i don't believe the lighting was flourescent but HPS. i know i shouldn't have set the white balance to auto but it still shouldn't expose differently across the frame. Has anyone seen this before??? BTW i did upgrade my firmware after this happened but Nikon said this wouldn't matter.

[PIC]

Very Interesting ...
I have seen this very effect from a Leica M8 first release.
Many considered this release crap.
And on the M8 it was even a mid day daylight shot.
You can fix with PS and abit of masking - actually you can chage the WB to look like above also ..

[jcastilla]

OK, just in case anyone is interested, i contacted Nikon technical group and sent them the pictures. Here is their response;
"Hello John,
Ok, high ISO camera setting shooting Sodium Vapor or Mercury Vapor lighting will produce this effect if the camera catches the image during a cycle. Since cheaper stadium lighting pulses, the camera is capturing the effect. The same thing happens with low frequency fluorescent lighting.
Use a slower shutter speed in these situations. Now that these cameras have much cleaner high ISO results, the lighting used to capture the shot needs to catch up."

I shot these at 1/500, f2.8 with ISO set to 3200. Not sure how slow i need to go so this doesn't occur but don't think i'll get the right stop action if i go to much lower.
Any suggestions?????

[dmora]

Originally Posted by jcastilla

OK, just in case anyone is interested, i contacted Nikon technical group and sent them the pictures. Here is their response;
"Hello John,
Ok, high ISO camera setting shooting Sodium Vapor or Mercury Vapor lighting will produce this effect if the camera catches the image during a cycle. Since cheaper stadium lighting pulses, the camera is capturing the effect. The same thing happens with low frequency fluorescent lighting.
Use a slower shutter speed in these situations. Now that these cameras have much cleaner high ISO results, the lighting used to capture the shot needs to catch up."

I shot these at 1/500, f2.8 with ISO set to 3200. Not sure how slow i need to go so this doesn't occur but don't think i'll get the right stop action if i go to much lower.
Any suggestions?????

try 1/125 or 1/80?
1/80 might be cutting it.