White Balance

Cameras must be set to recognise a certain colour temperature as neutral white.  This is known as adjusting the white balance.

White light is made up of the full spectrum of these wavelengths, but different proportions of combinations of this spectrum will produce different‘tones’of white, although our eye will adjust to them and just see ‘white’.

To adjust the white-balance

•Get in manual mode

•Go to memory A or B

•Focus on a white surface (full frame) with correct exposition

•Hold AWB button until AWB OK is displayed

•The principal two are photographic daylight (usually thought of as 5600 K) and tungsten (3200 K).

•However, daylight can vary from 2000 K at sunrise to 7000 K on an overcast day.