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Colour temperature & white balance · Specialist

Daylight balance

ELI5

A light or camera setting designed around approximately daylight colour temperature.

Used in conversation

“Let’s test the daylight balance before we lock the camera and lighting setup.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Daylight balance” in camera, lenses & lighting conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains what the image should look like and how it can be framed, captured and lit.

Connected terms

  • Tungsten balanceComputed from definition language and shared taxonomy. This indicates proximity, not synonymy.
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Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.