Nikon D500 Users Manual - English for customers in Asia Oceania the Middle Eas - Page 191
The Information Display, White Balance Fine-Tuning, Mired, Incandescent
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A The Information Display During viewfinder photography, you can press the U button to adjust white balance settings in the information display. Rotate the main command dial to choose the white balance mode and rotate the sub-command dial to choose the color temperature (mode K, "choose color temperature") or white balance preset (preset manual mode), or use the multi-selector to finetune white balance on the amber (A)-blue (B) and green (G)-magenta (M) axes (other white balance modes). A White Balance Fine-Tuning The colors on the fine-tuning axes are relative, not absolute. For example, moving the cursor to B (blue) when a "warm" setting such as J (Incandescent) is selected for white balance will make photographs slightly "colder" but will not actually make them blue. A "Mired" Any given change in color temperature produces a greater difference in color at low color temperatures than it would at higher color temperatures. For example, a change of 1000 K produces a much greater change in color at 3000 K than at 6000 K. Mired, calculated by multiplying the inverse of the color temperature by 10 6, is a measure of color temperature that takes such variation into account, and as such is the unit used in color-temperature compensation filters. E.g.: • 4000 K-3000 K (a difference of 1000 K)=83 mired • 7000 K-6000 K (a difference of 1000 K)=24 mired 165