Fine-Tuning White Balance

White balance can be “fine tuned” to compensate for variations in the color of the light source or to introduce a deliberate color cast into an image. White balance is fine tuned using the White balance option in the shooting menu or by pressing the WB button and rotating the sub-command dial.

❚❚ The White Balance Menu1 Select a white balance option.

Select White balance in the shooting menu (pg.

 

165), then highlight a white balance option and

 

press 2. If an option other than Fluorescent,

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Choose color temp., or Preset manual is

 

 

 

 

selected, proceed to Step 2. If Fluorescent is

 

selected, highlight a lighting type and press 2. If Choose color temp. is

 

selected, highlight a color temperature and press 2. If Preset manual is

 

selected, choose a preset as described on page 106 before proceeding.

 

2Fine tune white balance.

Use the multi selector to fine-tune white

 

 

 

 

 

 

balance. White balance can be fine tuned on

 

 

 

 

 

 

the amber (A)–blue (B) axis and the green (G)–

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

magenta (M) axis. The horizontal (amber-blue)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

axis corresponds to color temperature, with

 

 

 

Coordinates

 

each increment equivalent to about 5 mired.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adjustment

The vertical (green-magenta) axis has the

 

 

 

 

 

 

similar effects to the corresponding color compensation (CC) filters.

Increase green

 

 

 

 

Green (G)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blue (B)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amber (A)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Increase magenta

Magenta (M)

Increase blue Increase amber

AWhite Balance Fine Tuning

The colors on the fine-tuning axes are relative, not absolute. For example, moving the cursor to B (blue) when a “warm” setting such as J(incandescent) is selected for white balance will make photographs slightly “colder” but will not actually make them blue.

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