White balance

The white balance feature on digital cameras deals with the differences in colour temperature.  This adjusts the overall colour in a scene so that the very brightest parts are captured as pure white and without a colour tinge from the light. 

The settings on my camera are:

• Auto
• Incandescent
• Fluorescent
• Direct sunlight
• Flash
• Cloudy
• Shade
• K - where you can set your own white balance.  This can be done by using a grey card.