Nikon 4300 Measuring Light Metering, Preset White Balance, Method How It Works When to Use It

— Preset White Balance —

Measuring Light: Metering

Preset white balance is used to adjust white balance when shooting under mixed lighting or to compensate for light sources with a strong color cast (for example, to make pictures taken under a lamp with a red shade look as though they had been taken under white light).

WHITE BALANCE PRESET
	Cancel
	Measure
OFF	SELECT	SET

The “metering method” is the method your camera uses to measure light when determining exposure. In å shooting mode, “METERING” menu offers a choice of four metering methods:

	METERING
	Matrix
	Spot
	Center-Weighted
	Spot AF Area
OFF	SELECT	SET

Option	Description
Cancel	Recalls the most recent setting for preset white balance from
	memory and sets white balance to this value.
	To measure a new value for white balance, place a white object,
	such as a piece of paper, under the lighting that will be used in
Measure	the final picture. Frame this object so that it fills the square in the
	center of the menu shown above. Highlight Measure and press
	the Multi selector to the right to measure a new value for preset
	white balance (camera will zoom out and shutter will be released,
	but no picture will be recorded).

Method	How It Works	When to Use It
q	Meters 256 areas of frame	Best choice in most
	producing optimal
		circumstances.
Matrix	exposure for whole image
e	Meters only area shown by	Ensures central subject will be
	square in center of the
		correctly exposed regardless
Spot	monitor (1/32 of total	of background illumination.
	frame).
		Use for portraits; adjusts
w	Meters whole frame; but	exposure according to lighting

Menu

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At setting other than Auto, the current white- balance setting is indicated by an icon in the monitor.

	central 1/4 has an 80%	at the center of the frame, but
Center-Weighted	weighting.	still preserves background
		details.
		Useful when you want to use
r	Camera measures light in	spot metering with manual or
		automatic focus-area selection
Spot AF Area	current focus area only	(p. 112) to meter an off-center
		subject.

Guide—The Shooting Menu

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The current metering method is indicated by icons in the monitor.

Spot metering target

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