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Adjusting color (white balance)

White balance (WB) ensures that white objects in images recorded by the camera appear white. [AUTO] is suitable in most circumstances, but other values can be selected according to the light source when [AUTO] fails to produce the desired results or you wish to introduce a deliberate color cast into your images.

1 Display the live control (P. 20) and select the white balance item using FG.

2 Select an option using HIand press Q.

WB mode

 

Color

Light conditions

 

temperature

 

 

 

Auto white

 

 

Used for most light conditions (when there

AUTO

k

is a white portion framed on the LCD

balance

 

 

monitor). Use this mode for general use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

For shooting outdoors on a clear day, or to

 

5

5300K

capture the reds in a sunset or the colors in

 

 

 

a fireworks display

 

2

7500K

For shooting outdoors in the shadows on

Preset white

a clear day

 

 

balance

3

6000K

For shooting outdoors on a cloudy day

 

1

3000K

For shooting under a tungsten light

 

>

4000K

For subjects lit by fluorescent lights

 

W

k

For underwater photography

 

n

5500K

For flash shooting

One-touch white

 

Color

Choose when a white or gray subject can

 

temperature

be used to measure white balance and the

balance

V

set by one-

subject is under mixed lighting or lit by an

(P. 32)

 

touch WB.

unknown type of flash or other light source.

 

 

Custom white

CWB

2000K –

After pressing the INFO button, use HI

buttons to select a color temperature and

balance

14000K

 

then press Q.

 

 

 

White balance color temperature

As their temperature increases, objects first start to shine red and then to shine blue as the temperature rises further. Color temperature expresses the color of light in this way using absolute temperatures in degrees K (kelvin).

• Fluorescent light sources indicated by white dots in the accompanying figure have colors that differ slightly from those on the color temperature scale; the values shown in the figure have been converted to color temperatures for illustrative purposes.

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