White Balance (P, S, A, and M Modes)

Nine options are available for white balance. See “Reference: White Bal- ance” (58).

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. *

Display current source photo.

* To use last measured value (60), highlight Measure and press multi selector right.

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Highlight Select image.

Display folder list.

† To use the previous source photo, highlight This image and press multi selector right.

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Highlight folder.

Display images in selected folder.

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Highlight photograph.

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Set preset white balance to value for highlighted photograph and return to shooting menu.

Images displayed may include those created with other cameras, but only photographs created with D80 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 measured value even if Use photo is currently selected in the preset white balance menu.

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