What is white balance?. Besides manual white balance, most of the camcoders are equipped with automatic white balance facility. The automatic white balance register the color temperature of the source and makes the adjustments to ensure the correct reproduction of all colors.
What is the color temperature?. 'White' light is made up of all the colors of the spectrum and differant source of light of different colors temperature. The lowest temperatures are at the red end of the spectrum and the highest are at the blue end.
Some camcorders have PRE-SET white balance position to cope with the different lighting conditions. If we fail to set right setting of the white balance, the subjects that we recordered on the tape will have an unnatural color cast. Some camcorders have automatic white balance where we can set the button to indoor or outdoor shooting. The camcorder will automatically set the white balance according to the condition of the light source.
What is the color temperature?. 'White' light is made up of all the colors of the spectrum and differant source of light of different colors temperature. The lowest temperatures are at the red end of the spectrum and the highest are at the blue end.
Some camcorders have PRE-SET white balance position to cope with the different lighting conditions. If we fail to set right setting of the white balance, the subjects that we recordered on the tape will have an unnatural color cast. Some camcorders have automatic white balance where we can set the button to indoor or outdoor shooting. The camcorder will automatically set the white balance according to the condition of the light source.
