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

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).

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2 Use the rotary multi selector to choose

 

 

 

 

 

White balance

 

 

 

[f Preset manual] in the white balance

 

 

Auto

 

menu, and press d.

 

 

Preset manual

The camera zooms in.

 

 

Daylight

 

 

Incandescent

 

 

 

Fluorescent

 

 

Exit

 

 

 

 

 

 

and Playback, Shooting,

3 Choose [Measure].

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

Preset manual

Cancel

Measure

Exit

Menus Setup

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4 Frame the reference object.

 

 

 

Preset manual

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 Manual

Regardless of the flash mode selected, the flash will not fire when d is pressed in step 5.

92Therefore, the camera cannot measure a value for preset manual for when the flash is used.