Hasselblad CF DIGITAL CAMERA BACK RANGE, User Manual

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Part 2: FlexColor for Cameras
White Balance Settings for Cameras
For scanned images, there are no white-balance controls. This is because the precise
qualities of the light in the scanner are known and encoded into the Flextight input
color profile, so further control is not needed—images are always scanned to look
exactly as they did on film. To modify these colors in your scans, use the standard
Gradation , Histogram and/or Color Correction controls of FlexColor.
Figure 6: New settings for camera images in the FlexColor window.
Using the Exposure and White-Balance Controls
Whenever a camera is connected or a camera image is loaded, the control bar on the
left side of the preview window shows four controls for working with the white-
balance and exposure-correction values. Your settings will be saved with the file;
when opening camera images, the values shown are those set when the image was
taken (regardless of whether you shot them tethered or untethered from your
computer), but you can change them at any time and save them back with the file as
part of the setup history.
The following white-balance and exposure-correction controls are provided:
Exposure Correction slider: use this slider to brighten or darken the image
uniformly by up to 2 f-stops in either direction. This is the best way to correct
for overall exposure—far preferable to using gradation curves or
highlight/shadow settings for this purpose.
FlexColor 4.5 Documentation Addendum 21