Canon EOS C700, Instruction Manual

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White Balance
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White Balance
The camera uses an electronic white balance process to calibrate the picture and produce accurate colors under
different lighting conditions. There are 4 methods of setting the white balance.
You can also perform this function remotely using Browser Remote on a connected network device (
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166,
171).
Auto white balance (AWB): The camera automatically adjusts the white balance to the optimal level.
Custom white balance: You can use a gray card or white object with no pattern to calibrate the white balance
and set it to one of two custom white balance positions,
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A or
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B. You can further adjust the color
temperature value (K) and the color compensation (CC*) value.
Preset white balance: Set the white balance to
¼
(daylight) or
É
(tungsten lamp). You can further adjust the
color temperature value (K) and the color compensation (CC*) value.
User-set color temperature: The camera offers 5 white balance settings ( to ), each of which you can set
independently to a color temperature between 2,000 K and 15,000 K and further adjust the color compensation
(CC*) value.
* The CC value adjusts the balance of the image along the green/magenta gradation.
NOTES NOTES
• The [Color Matrix Tuning] and [White Balance] settings in the custom picture file (
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137) take precedence
over the white balance set with these procedures.
• You can use the [WB]
>
[OPTIONS]
>
[Shockless WB] setting to make the transition look
smoother when you change the white balance settings.
• When an optional RC-V100 Remote Controller is connected to the camera, you can adjust the white balance
with the remote controller’s AWB button, A button, B button, PRESET button and
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button.
• The color temperatures displayed on the control display and monitoring screen are approximate. Use them
only as a reference.
Selecting the White Balance Mode/Setting
1 Open the [White Balance] screen.
HOME screen: [WB]
• You can also select the white balance mode/setting using the direct setting mode (
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73).
2 Turn the SELECT dial to select the desired white balance setting.
• The color temperature and CC value for the highlighted setting are displayed on the right side of the control
display and at the top of the monitoring screen.
• Alternatively, you can press an assignable button set to [ AWB], [
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Set A], [
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Set B], [
¼
Daylight],
[
É
Tungsten] or one of the settings [ USER_01] to [ USER_05] (
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127).
• To register a custom white balance, adjust the color temperature/CC value or rename a user setting,
continue with the following procedures.