Nikon D40 manual Copying White Balance from a Photograph

Copying White Balance from a Photograph

A white balance value copied from an existing photograph can be used for preset white balance. Select White balance>White balance preset in the shooting menu. The menu shown in Step 1 will be displayed.

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Highlight Use photo. *

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Display current source photo.

* To use last measured value ( 71), highlight Measure and press multi selector right.

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Highlight Select image. †

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Display folder list.

†To use current source photo, highlight This image and press OK.

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Highlight folder.

Display images in selected folder.

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Highlight photograph. ‡ To view highlighted picture full frame, press and hold button.

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Set preset white balance to value for high- lighted photograph and return to shooting menu.

‡Images displayed may include those created with other cameras, but only photographs created with D40 can be used as source for preset white balance.

Note that if a new value is measured for white balance, white balance will be set to the mea- sured value even if Use photo is currently selected in the preset white balance menu.

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