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Adjusting White Balance Settings on the Canon R50 Camera

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Gary Detonnancourt

6/8/2023

White balance is an important setting for photographers, as it helps to ensure that the colors in their images appear accurate and true-to-life. It does this by adjusting the camera’s color temperature to match the light source of the scene being photographed. Without white balance, photos can look too yellow, blue, or even green.

The Canon R50 camera offers several white balance options, including Auto White Balance (AWB), Cloudy, Color Temperature, Custom, Daylight, Flash, Fluorescent (White), Shade, and Tungsten. Each of these settings will affect how your photos look differently. For example, if you are shooting in a cloudy environment, selecting Cloudy as your white balance setting will help to make sure that your photos don’t have a blue tint to them.

To access and modify the white balance settings on the Canon R50 camera:

  1. Turn on your camera and press the Menu button

  2. Select “Shooting Menu 1” from the menu options

  3. Scroll down to “White Balance” and select it

  4. Choose one of the available white balance settings from the list

  5. Press Set/OK to save your changes

  6. Exit out of the menu when you are finished

It is also important to note that post-processing software can be used to further adjust white balance after taking a photo with your Canon R50 camera. This can help you achieve more accurate colors in your final images, if needed.

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