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White Balance
The adjustment that makes a neutral subject render as neutral, compensating for the colour of the light illuminating it.
Colour & Colour ManagementWhite Balance Bracketing
Recording several versions of one frame at different white balance settings.
Colour & Colour ManagementWhite Balance Preset
A fixed white balance setting named for a common lighting condition, such as daylight, cloudy, shade, tungsten or flash.
Colour & Colour ManagementAuto White Balance
A camera function that estimates the illuminant from the scene and sets white balance accordingly.
Colour & Colour ManagementCustom White Balance
Setting white balance by photographing a known neutral target under the actual light and telling the camera to treat it as neutral.
Exposure & MeteringGrey Card
A physical card of known neutral 18 per cent reflectance, held in the subject's light to give both a reliable exposure reading and a white…
Colour & Colour ManagementKelvin Scale
The absolute temperature scale used to state the colour of light sources and white balance settings.
Post-Processing & RetouchingRaw Conversion
The process of turning a camera's raw sensor data into a viewable image by applying demosaicing, white balance, colour profile and tone…
Sensors & Digital CaptureRaw Data
The minimally processed values read from the sensor, before demosaicing, white balance or tone rendering.
Motion, Video & Creative TechniquesRaw Video
Video recorded as minimally processed sensor data, with white balance, colour and tone left adjustable afterwards.
Colour & Colour ManagementTint
The white balance axis running from green to magenta, correcting casts that colour temperature alone cannot address.
Colour & Colour ManagementChromatic Adaptation
The visual system's automatic adjustment to the colour of the prevailing light, which keeps familiar objects looking the same colour under…
Colour & Colour ManagementColour Cast
An unwanted overall tint across an image, usually caused by the light source or by reflections from coloured surfaces.
Colour & Colour ManagementColour Checker
A card of printed patches with known colour values, photographed in a scene to allow accurate colour correction and profiling.
Colour & Colour ManagementColour Constancy
The perceptual effect by which an object keeps its apparent colour across widely different illuminants.
Lighting & FlashCTO Gel
A colour temperature orange gel that warms a daylight-balanced source to match tungsten light.
Colour & Colour ManagementDCP Profile
A DNG camera profile, the file format used to describe a camera's colour response to raw processing software.
Cameras, Formats & SystemsElectronic Viewfinder
A small high-resolution display inside the eyepiece showing a live feed from the sensor.
Lighting & FlashLED Panel
A flat array of light-emitting diodes providing continuous, dimmable and often colour-adjustable illumination.
Cameras, Formats & SystemsMirrorless Camera
An interchangeable-lens camera with no reflex mirror, where the sensor feeds an electronic viewfinder or rear screen directly.
Colour & Colour ManagementMixed Lighting
A scene illuminated by two or more sources of different colour temperature, which cannot all be neutralised at once.
Lighting & FlashOpen Shade
An area shielded from direct sun but open to a large expanse of sky, giving soft, even illumination.
Cameras, Formats & SystemsOptical Viewfinder
A finder that shows the scene by direct optical path rather than on a screen.
Post-Processing & RetouchingPanorama Stitching
Combining several overlapping frames into a single wider image by aligning and blending them.