Nikon manual David Busch’s Nikon D7000 Guide to Digital SLR Photography

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duplicated using the WB button located second from the top to the left of the camera’s color LCD, but the menus offer even more choices, as you’ll see. Your white balance settings can have a significant impact on the color rendition of your images, as you can see in Figure 8.14.

In this section I’m going to describe only the menu commands at your disposal for set- ting white balance. To learn more about the theory behind why and when you should make white balance adjustments, check out the more complete description of white bal- ance bracketing in Chapter 4.

When you select the White Balance entry on the Shooting menu, you’ll see an array of choices like those shown in Figure 8.15. (One additional choice, PRE Preset Manual is not visible until you scroll down to it.) If you choose Fluorescent, you’ll be taken to another screen that presents seven different types of lamps, from sodium-vapor through warm-white fluorescent down to high temperature mercury-vapor. If you know the exact type of non-incandescent lighting being used, you can select it, or settle on a likely com- promise.

The Choose Color Temp. selection allows you to select from an array of color temper- atures in degrees Kelvin from 2,500K to 10,000K, and then further fine-tune the color bias using the fine-tuning feature described below. Select Preset Manual to record or

Figure 8.14 Adjusting color temperature can provide different results of the same subject at settings of 3,400K (left), 5,000K (middle), and 2,800K (right).