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White Balance Colour & Colour Management K and tint The adjustment that makes a neutral subject render as neutral, compensating for the colour of the light illuminating it.

White Balance Bracketing Colour & Colour Management mired steps Recording several versions of one frame at different white balance settings.

White Balance Preset Colour & Colour Management K A fixed white balance setting named for a common lighting condition, such as daylight, cloudy, shade, tungsten or flash.

Auto White Balance Colour & Colour Management K A camera function that estimates the illuminant from the scene and sets white balance accordingly.

Custom White Balance Colour & Colour Management K and tint Setting white balance by photographing a known neutral target under the actual light and telling the camera to treat it as neutral.

Grey Card Exposure & Metering % reflectance 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 balance reference.

Kelvin Scale Colour & Colour Management K The absolute temperature scale used to state the colour of light sources and white balance settings. K = °C + 273.15

Raw Conversion Post-Processing & Retouching The process of turning a camera's raw sensor data into a viewable image by applying demosaicing, white balance, colour profile and tone rendering.

Raw Data Sensors & Digital Capture ADU The minimally processed values read from the sensor, before demosaicing, white balance or tone rendering.

Raw Video Motion, Video & Creative Techniques MB/s Video recorded as minimally processed sensor data, with white balance, colour and tone left adjustable afterwards.

Tint Colour & Colour Management tint units The white balance axis running from green to magenta, correcting casts that colour temperature alone cannot address.

Chromatic Adaptation Colour & Colour Management The visual system's automatic adjustment to the colour of the prevailing light, which keeps familiar objects looking the same colour under different illuminants.

Colour Cast Colour & Colour Management An unwanted overall tint across an image, usually caused by the light source or by reflections from coloured surfaces.

Colour Checker Colour & Colour Management patches A card of printed patches with known colour values, photographed in a scene to allow accurate colour correction and profiling.

Colour Constancy Colour & Colour Management The perceptual effect by which an object keeps its apparent colour across widely different illuminants.

CTO Gel Lighting & Flash fraction (¼, ½, full CTO) A colour temperature orange gel that warms a daylight-balanced source to match tungsten light.

DCP Profile Colour & Colour Management A DNG camera profile, the file format used to describe a camera's colour response to raw processing software.

Electronic Viewfinder Cameras, Formats & Systems A small high-resolution display inside the eyepiece showing a live feed from the sensor.

LED Panel Lighting & Flash lux at 1 m A flat array of light-emitting diodes providing continuous, dimmable and often colour-adjustable illumination.

Mirrorless Camera Cameras, Formats & Systems An interchangeable-lens camera with no reflex mirror, where the sensor feeds an electronic viewfinder or rear screen directly.

Mixed Lighting Colour & Colour Management K A scene illuminated by two or more sources of different colour temperature, which cannot all be neutralised at once.

Open Shade Lighting & Flash An area shielded from direct sun but open to a large expanse of sky, giving soft, even illumination.

Optical Viewfinder Cameras, Formats & Systems A finder that shows the scene by direct optical path rather than on a screen.

Panorama Stitching Post-Processing & Retouching count Combining several overlapping frames into a single wider image by aligning and blending them.

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