Shooting ( )

Using the Custom White Balance

White balance settings may vary slightly depending on the shooting environment. You can select the most appropriate white balance setting for a given shooting environment by setting up a custom white balance.

1.Select Custom () in the White Balance Menu, and then place a sheet of white paper in front of the

camera so that the LCD screen shows only white.

2. OK button : Selects the previous

custom white balance.

White paper

Shutter button : Saves the new custom white

 

balance.

 

-The camera applies the custom white balance value, starting with the next picture you take.

-The camera retains the user configured white balance until you overwrite it with a new custom white balance.

What is color temperature?

The Color Temperature scale is a conventional measure of color expressed in degrees Kelvin (K). The scale runs from reds and yellows at the low end (below about 2700 K) to blues at the high (above about 5000 K). Every light source, for example, an incandescent bulb, radiates light that is mainly one color (see the scale above). This one color can distort the natural colors of a scene, giving everything in the scene a distinctive color cast. Your camera lets you change the color temperature setting of the white balance to adjust for the light source so that when you take pictures, the colors in the picture look natural.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Red light

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blue light

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Candle flame

 

 

Halogen Incandescent

Warm-white (Fluorescent)

 

Daylight

Cloudy

Cool-white (Fluorescent)

 

Shade

Clear sky

 

 

Flash Neutral-white (Fluorescent)

 

The Color Temperature scale correlates the temperature of what is called an ideal black body radiator to the color it radiates at that temperature. For example, a black body radiator glows red when heated to about 2000 degrees Kelvin and glows blue when heated to about 10,000 degrees Kelvin. The color of light from another source, for example, a fluorescent light, can be correlated to the color radiated by the black body at a certain temperature, and then expressed in degrees Kelvin.

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Samsung HZ50W manual What is color temperature?, Shutter button Saves the new custom white