Note to self… Preset White Balance

Wednesday, 17 December, 2014

Another photography note to self…. many cameras allow you to directly measure the white balance in a scene and set it prior to shooting. This can be very useful particularly if you are shooting JPEGs. Nikon’s use what they call Preset White Balance. If you set white balance to “PRE” (rather than auto or any other setting), who have 6 (on my D700) memory banks which can store a white balance setting. Long press the WB button to put the camera in to measurement mode and fire the shutter. The measurement is then stored in the memory bank and all subsequent photos then use that white balance setting.

Very handy!

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