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Adjusting color white balance - underwater

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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. 1 Display the live control (P. 22) and select the white balance item using FG. 2 Select an option using HI and press Q. P AAUTOO WB Auto IS OFF j WWBB AAUUTTOO 4:3 LF HD WB 1 Basic photography/frequently-used options WB mode Color temperature Light conditions Auto white balance AUTO k Used for most light conditions (when there is a white portion framed on the monitor). Use this 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 Preset white balance N 7500K For shooting outdoors in the shadows on a clear day O 6000K For shooting outdoors on a cloudy day 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 balance P/ temperature used to measure white balance and the subject 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 white balance CWB 2000K - 14000K After pressing the INFO button, use HI buttons to select a color temperature and then 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. EN 43

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EN
Basic photography/frequently-used options
1
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.
1
Display the live control (P. 22) and select the
white balance item using
FG
.
2
Select an option using
HI
and press
Q
.
AUTO
AUTO
WB
WB
P
WB Auto
AUTO
AUTO
WB
AUTO
WB
WB
WB
AUTO
AUTO
AUTO
L
F
IS OFF
IS OFF
4:3
j
WB
AUTO
WB
WB
WB
AUTO
AUTO
AUTO
HD
WB mode
Color
temperature
Light conditions
Auto white
balance
AUTO
k
Used for most light conditions (when there is a
white portion framed on the monitor). Use this
mode for general use.
Preset
white
balance
5
5300K
For shooting outdoors on a clear day, or to
capture the reds in a sunset or the colors in a
fi
reworks display
N
7500K
For shooting outdoors in the shadows on a clear
day
O
6000K
For shooting outdoors on a cloudy day
1
3000K
For shooting under a tungsten light
>
4000K
For subjects lit by
fl
uorescent lights
U
k
For underwater photography
n
5500K
For
fl
ash shooting
One-touch
white
balance
(P. 44)
P
/
Q
Color
temperature
set by one-
touch WB.
Choose when a white or gray subject can be
used to measure white balance and the subject
is under mixed lighting or lit by an unknown type
of
fl
ash or other light source.
Custom
white
balance
CWB
2000K –
14000K
After pressing the
INFO
button, use
HI
buttons to select a color temperature and then
press
Q
.
White balance color temperature
As their temperature increases, objects
fi
rst 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
fi
gure have
colors that differ slightly from those on the
color temperature scale; the values shown
in the
fi
gure have been converted to color
temperatures for illustrative purposes.
•