Orange photos with digital camera

wrote:
I have a four-month-old Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ4 digital camera which I
always keep set at the IA ("Intelligent Auto") mode.

When I take indoor photos (using the camera's built-in flash) of
people lit by incandescent lights, the photos have an strong orange
hue. (It doesn't matter if the people are 3 feet away or 20 feet away
from the camera).

What am I doing wrong?

You don't give enough details of your settings, but you're probably
using the flash as fill, so that equal weight is given to the
tungsten, which is orange compared to the colour temp of the
flash. You either need to overpower the local incandescents with your
flash, or use an orange gel to on your flash to match the colours with
approp colour temp adjustment in camera or later in editor.

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Chris Malcolm