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Re: Help With White Balance Card
Old 07-04-2006, 01:24 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by stevenD
Hey Dave, I can help you with you white balance card... open your back door and fling it as far as you can..
Then set your White Balance to 6000k (color temp) and away you go...
cheers
Of course you may have problems if the light you're using is not somewhere in the vicinity of 5000k. If the light is at 3400K and you set WB to 6000K you'll get poor results. If I'm shooting with studio strobes which are usually somewhere between 5000k and 5600k, then I sometimes use a K setting a few 100 above the strobe K to get a slight warming. But using 6000k as an arbitrary setting will not work across the board.

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