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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.

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Display the live control (P. 22) and select the white balance item using FG.Select an option using HIand press Q.

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Basic

WB mode		Color	Light conditions
		temperature
Auto white			Used for most light conditions (when there is a
	AUTO	k	white portion framed on the monitor). Use this
balance
			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
	N	7500K	For shooting outdoors in the shadows on a clear
Preset			day
white	O	6000K	For shooting outdoors on a cloudy day
balance
	1	3000K	For shooting under a tungsten light
	>	4000K	For subjects lit by fluorescent lights
	U	k	For underwater photography
	n	5500K	For flash shooting
One-touch		Color	Choose when a white or gray subject can be
white	P/	temperature	used to measure white balance and the subject
balance	Q	set by one-	is under mixed lighting or lit by an unknown type
(P. 44)		touch WB.	of flash or other light source.
Custom		2000K –	After pressing the INFO button, use HI
white	CWB		buttons to select a color temperature and then
		14000K
balance			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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