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 shot under a lamp with a red shade look as though they had been shot under white light).

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

2Use the multi selector to choose [bPreset

manual] in the white balance menu, and press k.

The camera zooms in.

BWhite balance a Auto

b Preset manual c Daylight

d Incandescent e Fluorescent

Exit

3Choose [Measure].

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

BPreset manual

Cancel

Measure

Exit

Shooting,

4 Frame the reference object.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

B Preset manual

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cancel

 

 

 

 

 

Measure

 

 

 

 

Exit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference object frame

5Press k.

The shutter is released and the new white-balance value is set.

No pictures are recorded.

CNote on Preset Manual

Menus Setup and Playback

Regardless of the flash mode selected, the flash will not fire when kis pressed in step 5. Therefore, the camera cannot measure a value for preset manual for when the flash is used.

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