[MacDV] Re: A Lighting Question

Jim Asherman jimash at optonline.net
Sun May 4 10:05:57 PDT 2003


On Sunday, May 4, 2003, at 10:59  AM, lloyds wrote:

> When you set the white balance, you hold a sheet of white material, 
> well-lit in the
> prevailing light, to fill the field in front of the camera and push 
> "set" (or
> whatever).  The camera then adjusts itself until what it "sees" is 
> white, whatever the
> light source may be (daylight, flourescent, incandescent, moonlight, 
> candlelight, etc.).
>
> BobLL
>
>

Not to get technical (cause I can't) there is a limited range to the 
setting and
moonlight and flourescent lights can easily fall outside that range one 
way or another.
Jim



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