Canon BP-511 Custom White Balance Setting, Select the image, Select the white balance, Photograph a white subject, Press the < AFWB > button. ( 6 )

Custom White Balance Setting

Custom white balance lets you set the white balance yourself by photographing a white subject to use as the basis for the camera’s white balance, and then selecting that picture for use as white balance data.

Photograph a white subject.

1 ● Take a picture of a white subject, just as you would take a normal picture.

● Frame the shot so that the white subject fills the

entire partial metering zone in the viewfinder.

● This picture can be taken using any mode (→16). ● Photograph a white subject so that a standard

exposure is obtained. If the picture is underex-

Partial metering zoneposed or overexposed, the correct white balance might not be obtained.

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From the menu, select [Custom WB].

●Press the <MENU> button.

●Turn the <> dial to select [Custom WB], then press the < > button.

Select the image.

●Turn the <> dial to select the picture you took in step 1, then press the < > button.

●When the setting is entered, the screen returns to the menu.

●Press the <MENU> button to clear the screen and exit the menu.

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Press the < AFWB > button. ( 6 )

Select the white balance.

●Turn the <> dial to select < >. ➡ The custom white balance is entered.

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