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Taking Photographs—White Balance
White balance can be set using the White bal. option in the shooting menu
or by pressing the WB button and rotating the main command dial.
The White Balance Menu
1
Highlight White bal. in the shooting menu
(
167) and press the multi selector to the
right.
A
100
NORM
DSC
ON
A
SHOOTING MENU
Shooting menu bank
Reset shooting menu
Active folder
Image quality
File name
Image size
Raw compression
White bal.
2
High light the de sired op tion and press the
multi se lec tor to the right. If Choose color
temp. is selected, a menu of color tempera-
tures will be displayed ( 56). If White bal.
preset is selected, a menu of preset white
balance options will be displayed ( 57). In
all other cases, a white-balance fi ne-tuning
dialog will be displayed ( 54).
White bal.
Auto
Incandescent
Fluorescent
Direct sunlight
Flash
Cloudy
Shade
SHOOTING MENU
Studio Strobe Lighting
Auto white balance may not produce the desired results with studio strobe lighting.
Choose a color temperature, use preset white balance, or set white balance to Flash
and use fi ne tuning to adjust white balance.
Color Temperature
The perceived color of a light source varies with the viewer and other conditions. Color
temperature is an objective measure of the color of a light source, defi ned with ref-
er ence to the temperature to which an object would have to be heated to radiate light
in the same wavelengths. While light sources with a color temperature in the neigh-
bor hood of 5,000–5,500 K appear white, light sources with a lower color tem per a ture,
such as incandescent light bulbs, appear slightly yellow or red. Light sourc es with a
higher color temperature appear tinged with blue.