White balance

[Noah Kadner]

Toggle the white balance preset switch- make sure it’s on ATW. I always recommend manual anyway unless you’re in complete run and gun mode.

Noah

[Janet Turner]

Noah –

Please forgive my ignorance. I have been reading Barry’s book as well as the owner’s manual and I am still confused about how to do a manual white balance. Would it be possible for you or anyone else to walk me through the steps. I understand the preset but both of my A and B switches always show Bch unless I toggle the A switch on the side of the camera to the point where an A shows up on the LCD screen and Bch goes away. Do I get to manual mode for white balancing through a menu item? Once I find the manual balance, do I then focus the camera on a whiteboard and shoot about 5 seconds of video to establish the white color or do I do it some other way? My older camera did not have manual white balance capability so this is all new to me.

Sorry for not getting this!

Grasshopper

[Roger Sherman]

the A & B allow you to manually set two different white balances. for example, you may abe shootig a scene where you go inside and outside. switch to A or B, hold a white card in front of the camera in a place where the light is most typical of the scene you’ll be shooting, hold the AWB button on the front of the camera until it says OK and you’re set.

[Janet Turner]

Roger –

Thank you for clearning up how to white balance. Naturally, I ran over to the camera and did what you said. By going to two different lighting situations, I could see clearly the difference in white balancing. Thank you again for responding. Up next is trying to figure out what I am suppose to do with a focus card but I think DV Rack walks me through it.

Grasshopper

[Janet Turner]

Just finished Barry’s book and got the answer to a lot of my questions. Great resource. Thank you Barry for all your hard work.

Grasshopper