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Exploring white balance presets

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Exploring white balance presets

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For most situations, auto white balance is going to be your white balance of choice. The auto white balance mechanism on the Mark III is very good. However, if you're taking some shots with auto white balance, and you're noticing on the back of the screen that maybe the white balance is a little off, that your colors look a little strange, you can change to a different white balance. So, to change white balance, I press the white balance button, and now I've got the option to change white balance, and metering mode. But of course, because white balance is on the right side of the little dot, it's the rear dial. So I can cycle through these by turning the command dial back here. From auto white balance, I get daylight, shade, cloudy, incandescent or tungsten, fluorescent, flash, a manual white balance setting, which we'll look at in a separate movie, and the option to dial in a specific white balance in degrees Kelvin, and then it cycles back to auto white balance. So let's say that…

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