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Adjusting color white balance

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Basic photography/frequently-used options 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. 20) and select IS OFF j the white balance item using FG. WB AUTO 1 WB AUTO 2 Select an option using HI and press Q. P AUTO 5 2 3 1 > WB mode Auto white balance AUTO 5 2 Preset white balance 3 1 > W n One-touch white balance V (P. 32) Custom white balance CWB Color temperature k 5300K 7500K 6000K 3000K 4000K k 5500K Color temperature set by onetouch WB. 2000K - 14000K Light conditions Used for most light conditions (when there is a white portion framed on the LCD monitor). Use this mode for general use. For shooting outdoors on a clear day, or to capture the reds in a sunset or the colors in a fireworks display For shooting outdoors in the shadows on a clear day For shooting outdoors on a cloudy day For shooting under a tungsten light For subjects lit by fluorescent lights For underwater photography For flash shooting 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 flash or other light source. 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. 40 EN

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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. 20) and select
the white balance item using
FG
.
P
WB AUTO
AUTO
5 2 3 1 >
IS OFF
WB
WB
AUTO
AUTO
j
2
Select an option using
HI
and press
Q
.
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 LCD
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
2
7500K
For shooting outdoors in the shadows on
a clear day
3
6000K
For shooting outdoors on a cloudy day
1
3000K
For shooting under a tungsten light
>
4000K
For subjects lit by
fl
uorescent lights
W
k
For underwater photography
n
5500K
For
fl
ash shooting
One-touch white
balance
(P. 32)
V
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.
•