Getting Ready

Basic

Photography

Playing Back/

Erasing Images

Other

Applications

Additional

Information

Taking Photographs Manually (Manual Photography)

W.B. (White Balance)

White Balance Additional Information, Glossary

The camera determines the white balance by averaging the various light that actually enters the lens. This setting allows you to set in advance the white balance when taking photographs under specific lighting conditions.

This setting does not function when the flash is used to take photographs. [Auto] : Automatic adjustment (default)

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: Photography outdoors

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: Photography in bluish fluorescent light

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: Photography in reddish fluorescent light

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: Photography in incandescent light

E.V. (Exposure Compensation)

E.V. (Exposure Compensation) Additional Information, Glossary

This setting allows you to intentionally lighten or darken the entire screen. Use this setting when the optimum brightness (exposure) cannot be obtained, for example, when there is a lot of contrast between the subject and the background or when the subject to photograph occupies only an extremely small part of the screen. E.V. can be set in 11 stages. Increasing E.V. lightens the screen, while decreasing E.V. darkens the screen.

[+1.5/+1.2/+0.9/+0.6/+0.3/0 (default)/–0.3/–0.6/–0.9/–1.2/–1.5]

The ideal brightness sometimes cannot be obtained even if a large E.V. value is set in dark photographic conditions.

Also, the brightness of moving images before they are photographed sometimes does not change if the subject itself is dark. In this case, press the shutter button, and check the brightness in the preview image (photographed still image).

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Toshiba PDR-M4 instruction manual White Balance, Exposure Compensation, Photography in incandescent light