Understanding White Balance

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Auto

Daylight

Cloudy

Tungsten

Fluorescent

White balance helps you get the colors in the image as accurate as your eye sees them. It is important to set your white balance because different sources of light produce different colors. For example fluorescent lights make more of a blue-green color (cool lights) and tungsten and incandescent lights create more of a yellow-orange color (hot lights).