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 when the desired effect has not been achieved with 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).

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

2Use the rotary multi selector to choose

bPreset manual in the white balance menu, and press the kbutton.

The camera zooms in.

White balance

Auto

Preset manual

Daylight

Incandescent

Fluorescent Exit

3Choose Measure.

To use the most recently measured value for preset manual, choose Cancel and press the k button. The most recently measured value will be set for White Balance.

Preset manual

Cancel

Measure

Exit

Shooting,

4 Frame the reference object.

Preset manual

 

Cancel

Measure

Exit

Reference object frame

5Press the kbutton to measure the white balance value.

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

No images are recorded.

CNote on Preset Manual

Regardless of the flash mode selected, the flash will not fire when the kbutton is pressed in step 5. Therefore, the camera cannot measure a value for preset manual for when the flash is used.

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