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Uploaded by on Apr 2, 2009

More at HowNowVideo.com. In this quick tutorial I show the Canon XH-A1 and the Panasonic AG-HMC150 and they look white balanced, side-by-side.

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  • Hi - Do you have the RGB color values of your blue card that you printed ?

  • @harlaho No, I just picked an arbitrary very light blue using Photoshop. Run some tests with different darknesses of blue, from very light to moderately light. Do a whitebalance and see what you like. Of course you can search for professionally made "warm cards" online. Check out HowNowVideo(dot)com for more tutorials. Good luck.

  • I get a lot out of your videos. Could you tell me, when doing a white balance, do I Zoom up on the card filling up the frame or do I use NO zoom and how much of the frame needs to be filled with the card,,, Many Thanks

  • @dawavecraver I typically zoom into the card so no other items are seen in the field of view. That way you'll be sure to get a proper white balance.

  • i f you will be shooting in a specific area for more than one day, do you have to white balance constantly the camera ?

  • @iron4up No, you don't need to constantly white balance your camera. But if the quality of light changes, you might need to do it occasionally. Some light is warm (reddish) in color, some cooler (bluish). If you're getting lots of sunlight, then the sun goes behind clouds, the color will change. On some cameras you have an A/B setting for white balance. You can set both the A and B then switch between them as light changes from room to room or from cool to warm. Experiment.

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  • @dteubner many thanks

  • hey im a big camera fan...i love cameras and i have a strong love for them if u wanna make a donation you can inbox me...any camera...because i know you have more than 1...real good video it changed EVERYTHING

  • Awesome ... white balance makes sense now!

  • thanks David- good video

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