Auto Mode

Preset Manual

Preset manual is used with mixed lighting or to compensate for light sources with a strong color cast (for example, to make pictures taken under a lamp with a red shade look as though they had been taken under white light).

1Place a white or gray reference object under the lighting that is used during shooting.

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2Display the shooting menu (A34), use the multi selector to select bPreset manual in the White balance menu, and press k.

The camera zooms in.

White balance

Auto

Preset manual

Daylight

Incandescent

Fluorescent

Cloudy

Exit

Shooting

3Select Measure.

To apply the most recently measured value for preset manual, choose Cancel and press k. The most recently measured value is applied for white balance.

Preset manual

Cancel

Measure

Exit

4 Frame the reference object.

 

 

 

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Cancel

 

 

Measure

 

 

Exit

 

 

 

Reference object frame

5Press k.

The shutter is released (no image is captured) and the new white-balance value is set.

BNote on Preset Manual

The camera cannot measure a white balance value for when the flash fires. When shooting with the

54flash, set White balance to Auto or Flash.