How to set a custom white balance on the EOS Digital Rebel XT.
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Date published: 06/09/2015 |
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Date last updated: 02/05/2016 |
Description
How to set a custom white balance on the EOS Digital Rebel XT.
Solution
With custom white balance, you shoot a white object that will serve as the basis for the white balance setting. By selecting this image, you import its white balance data for the white balance setting.
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1. Photograph a white object.
- The plain, white object should fill the viewfinder center.
- Set the lens focus mode switch to <MF>, then focus manually.
- Set any white balance setting.
- Shoot the white object so that a standard exposure is obtained.
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2. Select [Custom WB].
- Select the [
 2] tab.
- Press the <
 > key to select [Custom WB], then press < >.
- The custom WB screen will appear.
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3. Select the image.
- Press the <
 > key to select the image that was taken in step 1, then press <>.
- The image?s white balance data will be imported and the menu will reappear.
- The caution screen highlighted in orange frame will appear.
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4. Select [White balance].
- Select the [2] tab.
- Press the <> key to select [White balance], then press <>.
- The white balance screen will appear.
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3. Select the custom white balance.
- Press the <
 > key to select < >, then press <>.
- When you press the shutter button halfway, the <> icon will be displayed on the LCD panel.
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- If the exposure obtained in step 1 is underexposed or overexposed, a correct white balance might not be obtained.
- If an image was captured while the processing parameter was set to [B/W], it cannot be selected in step 3.
- Instead of a white object, an 18% gray card (commercially available) can produce a more accurate white balance.
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