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One touch white balance
One touch white balance

One touch white balance

Why useful

The automatic or preset white balance is useful for normal situations. In case you would like to have a precise white balance or you are working in difficult light situations customized white balance offers you much better results. In case you don’t work with RAW files, which can change white balance in post-processing, with OM-D cameras you could use the One Touch White Balance.

How to use the one touch white balance

Customised white balance highlight on a screenshot of the Super Control Panel

1. Press the “OK” button to activate the Super Control Panel. Choose white balance and press “OK” again.

Screenshot of the one touch white balance function

2. Choose a “Custom White Balance” and press the “INFO” button.

Front view of E-M1 Mark III

3. Shoot a neutral object (i.e. white sheet of paper or a gray card), which covers at least 75% of the image area.

Screen shot one shot white balance

4. As soon as you took the image the camera asks you whether you would like to save the white balance or not.

Pro Tip

In case you need to have custom white balance often you could also program a button with the function. This has the advantage that you could save the customized white balance by pressing the button only, without going through the menu.

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