How do you White Balance an EOS 90D?

[Pking]

Hello all. I realize how stupid I sound. But I just purchased my Canon EOS 90D, and if anyone could write the basic instructions on how to white balance it, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Note: for the last 20 years I've been shooting with a Canon GL1 MiniDV camera. I felt the time finally came for me to update my camera. So, expect some surprisingly ignorant posts from me in the next few weeks. Thank you, and Happy Holidays! 

[Ray-uk]

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@Pking wrote:

 if anyone could write the basic instructions on how to white balance it, I'd greatly appreciate it.

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I think you will find that Canon have already done that in the user manual.

[jrhoffman75]

Canon AWB is very good. Plus, as Ray said, full guidance in the manual.

[kvbarkley]

There are many ways to do white balance depending on your workflow.

I would say that there are two main methods on this board:

Shoot in RAW and fix in post if necessary.

Shoot in JPEG with AWB and don't worry about it unless a specific image has an issue.

Do you have a specific problem, or is this a general question?

[Pking]

I'm talking about shooting video, not film.

Perhaps I should explain: For years, I've been shooting with a 20 year old camera (Canon GL1 MiniDV), and editing on a version of Final Cut Pro which at least 12 years old. I just purchased a more modern camera and computer, and now I have a lot of adjusting to do (a lot to teach myself).

I personally like to shoot everything white balanced,  and then tweak colors in Post... I did find the way to automatically white balance with the EOS 90D, but I can't find a way to do it manually. And that's exactly what I want to learn. 

[jrhoffman75]

It looks like Custom White Balance (page 225) also applies to movie shooting.

[jrhoffman75]

https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Cinema-EOS-Discussions/White-Balance-on-new-Cinema-EOS-Cameras-C5...

Same for dedicated cinema cameras. 

[Johnw1]

This and a lot more is in the 90D manual.

[Pking]

jrhoffman75, I bought this camera on eBay, and the instructions it came with are very short. My instructions do not include 225 pages.

[Pking]

Johnw1, ok. So my with old camera (the MiniDV Canon GL1) all my white balancing had to be done manually. But it looks like with the EOS 90D, I can usually get away with using automatic white balancing. Eventually I will have to learn manual white balance. But for the beginning I should be able to get away with only doing automatic white balance... Does that sound right?