Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu

Preset Manual

Preset manual is effective with 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).

1Place a white or gray reference object under the lighting that will be used during shooting.

2Display shooting menu (A 98), use the multi selector to choose bPreset manual in the White balance menu and press the k button.

The camera zooms in.

White balance

Auto

Preset manual

Daylight

Incandescent

Fluorescent

Exit

Shooting, Playback and Setup Menus

3 Choose Measure.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preset manual

To apply the most recently measured value for preset

 

 

 

 

 

 

manual, choose Cancel and press the k button.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cancel

 

 

Measure

 

 

Exit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4 Frame the reference object.

 

 

 

 

 

Preset manual

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cancel

 

 

 

Measure

 

 

 

Exit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference object frame

5Press the k button.

The shutter is released and the new white-balance value is set. No picture is recorded.

BNote on Preset Manual

It is impossible to measure a value for preset manual that takes flash lighting into account. When

102using flash, select Auto or Flash for the White balance setting.

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Nikon COOLPIXS1000PJ user manual Preset Manual, Camera zooms, Reference object frame