Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu

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 will be used during shooting.

2Display the shooting menu (A71), use the

multi selector to set White balance to bPreset manual, then press k.

The camera zooms in.

White balance

Auto

Preset manual

Daylight

Incandescent

Fluorescent

Cloudy

Exit

3Choose Measure.

To apply the most recently measured value for preset manual, choose Cancel and press k.

Preset manual

Cancel

Measure

Exit

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4 Frame the reference object.

 

 

 

Preset manual

 

 

 

 

 

Cancel

 

 

Measure

 

 

Exit

 

 

 

Reference object frame

Menus Setup

5Press k.

The shutter is released and the new white balance value is set (no picture is recorded).

BNote on Preset Manual

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

flash, set White balance to Auto or Flash.

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