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Setting a Custom White Balance
Now with all models of camera's the menus may be different, but the principal of Custom white balance is the same, just read your manual and follow the steps.
To create a custom white balance you will need something pure white. A piece of white card stock or a bristol board will do. Use your meter (or your camera's meter) to determine the exposure. Take a single full-frame image of the white card. Don't worry what white balance your camera is set to for this step. Verify the exposure in your histogram.
In your cameras main menu choose the Custom WB setting. Your LCD will now display all the images that are on that card.
Scroll through the images until you come to the image of the white card. Select this image as your whitecard "template".
Last, and most important, select the custom white balance icon in your cameras WB. You must do this to activate the custom WB function. Once that is done, you can erase or format the card, the WB will remain set until you replace it with a new CW image.
