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Your camera’s white balance function compensates for the variations in color temperature by making the dominant colored light appear as normal white light regardless of its true color. When a camera has not been properly whitebalanced, sunlit scenes look hideously blue or indoor scenes look horribly orange. Most cameras have built-in preset functions for daylight and indoor white balance and fairly reliable auto-white balance (AWB) functions. Use these presets or auto if you like the look, but if you want to shoot like the ...

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