Size of white balance eye dropper

[klasal (Klaus Salkola)]

It is fine that the size of the white balance eye dropper can be adjusted to get a better average from even grey surfaces. The upper limit for the radius is 50 pix.

I use a collapsing circular white balance target and the maximum eye dropper is only a spot on the circle. The influence of noise the readings is remarkable at high ISO photos and the measured values vary between successive readings along the target.

Is it a big issue to remarkably increase the maximum size in future updates?

[klasal (Klaus Salkola)]

Thank you MikeR. This fullfills my request.

[Egregius ((Greg) - Windows 11)]

I think this feature request already exists:

Change to white balance eyedropper tool

Hello, I have noticed that the white balance eye dropper seems to sample a very very small area, which seems to cause issues on high ISO images. If you put the eye dropper over your grey card in the photo and click and hold and slowly move around the grey card (just a few pixels in any direction) you can see the white balance shifting slightly on low ISO images and shift more extreme on high ISO ones. I am currently unable to rely on the tool at about ISO 3200 and up. Would it be possible to …

What do you think?

[sgospodarenko (Svetlana G.)]

Thank you @Egregius . So, please vote there and I’ve merged these posts.

Regards,
Svetlana G.