Nikon COOLPIXS52MB, COOLPIXS52CR Preset Manual, Choose Measure, Frame the reference object

Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu

Preset Manual

Preset manual is used 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.

2Use the rotary multi selector to choose

bPreset manual in the white balance menu, and press k.

The camera zooms in.

White balance

Auto

Preset manual

Daylight

Incandescent

Fluorescent

Exit

Shooting,

3Choose Measure.

To apply the most recently measured value for preset manual, choose Cancel and press k.

Preset manual

Cancel

Measure

Exit

Playback, and Setup Menus

4Frame the reference object.

Preset manual

Cancel

Measure

Exit

Reference object frame

5Press kto measure the white balance value.

The shutter is released and the new white-balance value is set.

No pictures are recorded.

CNote on Preset Manual

Regardless of the flash mode selected, the flash will not fire when k is pressed in step 5. Therefore,

86the camera cannot measure a value for preset manual for when the flash is used.