White Balance Your Camera
This post was written by Matt on May 20, 2009
Posted Under: How Stuff Works
Posted Under: How Stuff Works
How and why you should always white balance your video camera.
How and why you should always white balance your video camera.
Reader Comments
Every now and again I find a web site that is a real source of useful information and content. This is one of those. A rare beast indeed. Keep up the good work. Kind regards ….
I have to make myself remember to set the white balance when I’m on location. I have been at many weddings and set the white balance for the ceremony then go to the reception and forget to set my WB. It’s such a pain. I have also use just about anything to set my WB: white cars, paper, wedding dresses (Ha Ha), and just about anything else you can think of that’s white. Thanks again for the amazing video. Keep them coming!!
Thank you for taking time out to explain the white-balance issue, especially the Kelvin intro! I’m just learning/absorbing all this material, to start out a ’small’ video production for the web, and all your video tutorials on YouTube have been really helpful. Just thought I’d drop in and say thank you!
The difference between final productions boils down to lots of little details. White balancing is the start as you like a big commercial jet pilot go through the check list before getting off ground, pulling up the landing gear and getting ready for the inflight movie.