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When photographing documents (in the slightly slap-dash but productive way we've been doing it at the Buffalo Club) it's necessary to set the camera's white balance to match the day's lighting conditions. With the Sony RX100 mk.V it's a matter of:
- Set up the camera with the lighting conditions for the session, with nothing but a large white piece of paper in the frame. (Some paper has whitening chemicals added, which can throw things out, but that's a topic for another day.)
- Use the Fn key to enter the menu, then go to the 'White balance' submenu.
- At the bottom is the
item, which enters the set mode. The white object only needs to fill the central area. - Click the centre of the control wheel to set the white balance:
- Choose one of the three custom registers in which to save it:
The new values are saved and selected. To view them, you can go into the custom register, and view the values:
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