Changing A(Auto) Mode Settings (Shooting Menu)

Preset Manual

Preset manual is used with mixed lighting or to compensate for light sources with a strong color cast when the desired effect has not been achieved with white balance settings like Auto and Incandescent (for example, to make images shot under a lamp with a red shade look as though they had been shot under white light).

Use the procedure below to measure the white balance value under the lighting used during shooting.

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

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2Display the shooting menu (A46), use the rotary multi selector to choose bPreset

manual in the White balance menu, and press the kbutton.

The camera zooms in to the position for measuring white balance.

White balance Auto

Preset manual

Daylight

I ncandescent Fluorescent Cloudy Flash

3Choose Measure.

To apply the most recently measured white balance value, choose Cancel and press the kbutton. The white balance setting will not be measured again and the most recently measured value will be set.

Preset manual

Cancel

Measure

4Frame the reference object in the measuring

window.

Preset manual

 

Cancel

Measure

Measuring window

5Press the kbutton to measure a value for preset manual.

The shutter is released and the new white-balance value is set. No image is saved.

BNote on Preset Manual

A value for flash lighting cannot be measured with Preset manual. When shooting using the flash,

50set White balance to Auto or Flash.

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Nikon COOLPIXS9100RED, CT1A01(11) Preset Manual, Manual in the White balance menu, and press the kbutton, Choose Measure

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