The instructions say to shoot something white and get a "standard exposure". Now I'm not sure what Canon thinks is a standard exposure here. For instance, in full sunlight is it with the histogram peak in the middle, or maybe with the histogram peak where it should be for white - way over on the right side? In heavy thunderclouds and imminent rain, should the standard exposure of the white card actually be somewhat to the right side of the histogram?
Then the instructions say to go into Menu and select Custom WB, rotate the round wheel to the image I just shot of something white, and use the set button to select that image and have its profile saved as my Custom WB.
Then the instructions say that I can store a number of Custom WB settings in the camera for different lighting situations.
Now, I don't believe that when I hit set after I've selected the white shot, that the camera is setting anything, because as soon as I hit set, the menu immediately goes back to the master menu list. But maybe the processor chip is blindingly fast.
However, if I were able to set multiple WB I'd expect to get a dialog that said something like WB1? and I hit set again to confirm that I want that to be WB1.
Can any of you 10D users help me out with this?
Thanks
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