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Unlike film, which basically comes with just two colour balances – Daylight and Tungsten, digital cameras and backs can be set to a wide range of colour temperature settings. With film, fine tuning can only be done with the use of CC filters in the field (if shooting reversal stock), or at the printing stage (if shooting negative). But all digital cameras have the ability to set the White Balance through the use of presets such asDaylight, Shade, Indoor, Fluorescent, Flash, etc. In some high-end digicams, and most DSLRs, exact Kelvin temperature values can also be set, although you will find that how each camera reacts to being set to 5700 Degrees, for example, will differ.
All cameras have as well anAuto White Balancemode – where the camera estimates the temperature of the light, based on an integration of what is recorded in the scene. Usually this works pretty well.
If one is shooting in Raw mode it's even easier. There is no colour temperature "baked" into t...

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