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Calendar-based white balance

Suitable for the British market.
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Digital camera owners who don't always shoot raw will be well aware of the problem of forgetting to set the correct white balance for the prevailing conditions. For the British market, this is easy - the camera's in-built clock will set the balance to "heavily overcast" for the whole year, except the first week in June, when it will be merely "cloudy".
[mfe] Rant.
coprocephalous, Aug 19 2005

View Master http://www.fotomuse...by.nu/q-rodbetr.jpg
Use one of these with slides of sunny days. [skinflaps, Aug 19 2005]

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       A manual override could take the form of a dial, which depicts how rainy it is right now.
Ian Tindale, Aug 19 2005
  

       It would go from (1) drizzle to (10) torrential.
wagster, Aug 19 2005
  

       Perhaps there should be a Scottish version, where the computer switches between "glorious sunshine" and "monsoon season" every seven and a half seconds or so.
calum, Aug 19 2005
  
      
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