ASee Also

When WB bracketing is selected for Custom Setting e5 (Auto bracketing set, 0 307), the camera will create several images each time the shutter is released. White balance will be varied with each image, “bracketing” the value currently selected for white balance. See page 137 for more information.

AColor Temperature

The perceived color of a light source varies with the viewer and other conditions. Color temperature is an objective measure of the color of a light source, defined with reference to the temperature to which an object would have to be heated to radiate light in the same wavelengths. While light sources with a color temperature in the neighborhood of 5,000–5,500 K appear white, light sources with a lower color temperature, such as incandescent light bulbs, appear slightly yellow or red. Light sources with a higher color temperature appear tinged with blue. The camera white balance options are adapted to the following color temperatures:

• I(sodium-vapor lamps): 2,700 K

• H(direct sunlight): 5,200 K

• J(incandescent)/

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N(flash): 5,400 K

I(warm-white fluorescent):

• G(cloudy): 6,000 K

3,000 K

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I(daylight fluorescent): 6,500 K

• I(white fluorescent): 3,700 K

• I(high temp. mercury-vapor):

• I(cool-white fluorescent):

 

7,200 K
4,200 K

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M(shade): 8,000 K

• I(day white fluorescent):

 

 

 

 

 

r

5,000 K

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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