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.

1 Select a white balance option.

Press G to display the menus, then

 

highlight White balance in the shooting

 

menu and press 2. Highlight the desired

 

white balance option and press 2 (if

Gbutton

Fluorescent is selected, highlight the

 

desired lighting type and press 2; note that

 

fine-tuning is not available with Preset

 

manual).

 

2Fine-tune white balance.

Use the multi selector to fine-tune white balance.

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 will make photographs slightly “colder” but will not actually make them blue.

Increase green

Increase

Increase

blue

amber

Increase magenta

Coordinates

Adjustment

3 Save changes and exit.

Press J.