Fine-Tuning Colors with White Balance Bracket

Better Fuji Photos Episode 29: Fine-Tuning Colors with White Balance Bracket

Continuing with our one-year Fujifilm challenge outlined in Episode 1, here we're going to discuss another tool available to us to get to that goal. And that's the White Balance Bracket drive mode, useful for when you might want to see some variations in the selected white balance.

There is no correlation between actual color temperature adjustments and the selected "strength," either +/- 1, 2, or 3. It's just going to be "a little," "more," and "a lot" of white balance variation. I would encourage you to experiment with it to see for yourself what the different settings do.

The setup varies between different camera models, so here's a quick summary:

Cameras with a Drive mode button on the back:

1. Press the Drive mode button on the back of the camera and select White Balance BKT.
2. Select the "strength" (+/- 1, 2, or 3)
3. Set the drive back to Still Image to exit the bracketing mode.

Cameras with a mode dial that has BKT on it:

1. Go to the Shooting Setting menu > Drive Setting > BKT Setting > White Balance BKT to set the "strength" (+/- 1, 2, or 3).
2. To select this as the active bracketing mode, go to the Shooting Setting menu > Drive Setting > BKT Setting > BKT Select and select White Balance BKT.
3. Set your drive dial to BKT to enter the bracketing mode. 
4. Set the drive dial back to S to exit the bracketing mode.

Accompanying web article: https://www.jmpeltier.com/fujifilm-white-balance-bracket/

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