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Performing a custom white balance

Performing a custom white balance

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Performing a custom white balance

- Having a dedicated instrument on set can be a bit tricky but you have one. Your camera is relatively accurate at measuring this. - Absolutely and so I go back into my menus and then once again go into the White Balance menu. I want to come down to these options. Now on this particular model, Rich, I actually have three kind of user preset storage locations right? - Yeah. - So if I have an indoor, an outdoor, you know whatever interview set up, I can store those as ones that I go back to all the time, but if I come back to this option set, Custom Setup. - Yup. - Let me go ahead and choose that and when I do, it's gets this little warning onscreen that says hey, go ahead and capture this and you notice that little target in the middle? - Yeah. It says put it over something that it thinks is white. - Yup, so I'm gonna put it right over our white target there and just go ahead and capture that. It's going to actually take a picture. You heard it take a picture there and now it comes…

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