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White Balance

Digital cameras require a certain amount of calibration to capture color information (RGB) properly. This calibration is called white balance, because the camera is being given the information it needs to identify white areas of the image and reproduce them correctly.

The image below shows the same scene white balanced to different color temperatures:

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You can (and should) confirm or set the white balance on the Canon EOS 5D MkIV camera before capturing images or video. You can do this by pressing the WB button on the top right of the camera chassis. A menu will appear (it looks slightly different depending on whether you are shooting in image or video mode), and you can use the large dial on the right side of the camera chassis to select the white balance mode. The available white balance options are:

  • AWB (auto white balance): the camera will automatically seek an appropriate white balance for the lighting conditions
  • Daylight
  • Shade
  • Cloudy
  • Tungsten Light
  • White Fluorescent Light
  • Flash
  • Custom
  • Color Temperature
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