Canon EOS 10D Selecting the White Balance, Press the button Select the white balance setting

Selecting the White Balance

The following white balance settings are provided: Auto, daylight, shade, cloudy, tungsten, fluorescent, flash, custom and color temperature.

1 Press the < > button. ( )

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Select the white balance setting.

•While looking at the LCD panel, turn the < > dial to select the desired white balance setting.

•To return to shooting, just press the shutter button halfway.

Auto Daylight Shade Cloudy Tungsten

Color Temperature Custom	Flash	Fluorescent
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• In the Basic Zone modes, < > will be set automatically.

•In step 2, turning the < > dial will select the AF mode. (→p.64)

White Balance

The three R (red), G (green), and B (blue) primary colors exist in varying proportions in a light source depending on its color temperature. When the color temperature is high, there is more blue. And when the color temperature is low, there is more red. As the color temperature increases from low to high, the color cast changes in the following sequence: red, orange, yellow, white, and bluish white. For example, if you have a white object under a lit tungsten light bulb, it will look red or orange in the image. If it is under fluorescent light, it will look greenish.

To the human eye, a white object still looks white regardless of the type of lighting. The human eye is highly adaptive to different types of lighting and color temperatures. With a film-based camera, you can attach a color compensation filter to the lens or use tungsten film to compen- sate for the color cast caused by the light source's color temperature. With a digital camera’s white balance setting, you can digitally compensate (based on a standard white color) the color temperature so that the colors in the image look more natural.

The camera’s <> feature uses the image sensor to set the white balance.

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