Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu

f Preset White Balance

Preset white balance 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).

 

 

 

 

1

Place a white or gray reference object under the lighting that

 

will be used during shooting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

Use the multi selector to choose [White

 

 

 

White balance

 

bal. preset] in the white balance menu,

 

 

Auto

 

 

 

and press d.

 

 

White bal. preset

 

The camera zooms in.

 

 

Daylight

 

 

 

Incandescent

 

 

 

 

Fluorescent

 

 

 

Exit

 

 

 

 

 

3 Choose [Measure].

To apply the most recently measured value for preset white balance, choose [Cancel] and press d.

White bal. preset

Cancel

Measure

Exit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4 Frame the reference object.

 

 

 

White bal. preset

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cancel

 

 

 

 

 

Measure

 

 

 

 

Exit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference object frame

5 Press d.

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

No pictures are recorded.

kNote on Preset White Balance

Menus Setup and Playback, Shooting,

Regardless of the flash mode selected, the flash will not fire when dis pressed in step 5. There- fore, the camera cannot measure a value for preset white balance for when the flash is used.

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