Custom White Balance - Canon EOS 50D Instruction Manual

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Setting the White Balance
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Custom White Balance
Custom white balance enables you to manually set the white balance
for a specific light source for better accuracy. Do this procedure under
the actual light source to be used.
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Spot metering circle
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Photograph a white object.
• The plain, white object should fill the
spot metering circle.
• Focus manually and set the standard
exposure for the white object.
• You can set any white balance.
2
Select [Custom WB].
• Under the [01:] tab, select [Custom
WB], then press
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... The SET screen will appear.
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Import the white balance data.
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dial to select
the image captured in step 1, then
press
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On the dialog screen
which appears,
select
[OK]
and the data will be
imported.
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Press the
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white balance.
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