Most effective tool for white balance?
I don't think that there's such a thing as a "locked down" white balance ~ and much understanding may be needed to fully come to terms with the conundrum
eg- if you were a studio operator, for technical consistency and repeatible results you would need to 'lock down' the WB to match the lighting used inside the studio - but this setting would not automatically work in another studio, and certainly not outdoors
Things like grey-cards are used [very occasinally] to define exposure in circumstances where questionable lighting might exist. Personally I haven't used a grey card for over 40 years
The Spyder device [to my understanding] is designed to calibrate your monitor to a known baseline so that your work can be consistent in colour quality. Nothing to do with WB directly, but certainly is influenced by WB
For myself - my cameras are set as WB = sunshine for 95% of my day to day stuff - alternating to whatever indoors lighting source I might be shooting under on other occasions. I do not use AWB as I want the camera to follow my ideas rather than it wander thru various WB options that it might think are appropriate
Hope this helps
Phil from the great land Downunder
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