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Your two choices look like this:
■ 12 bit. This is an optional bit depth for the Nikon D7000. Images are recorded at
12-bits per channel in the RAW file, and end up with 12 bits of information per
channel that is translated during conversion for your image editor either into 12
bits within a 16-bits-per-channel space or interpreted down to 8 bits per channel.
■ 14 bit. At this default setting, the D7000 grabs 16,384 colors per channel instead
of 4,096, ending up as 14 bits in a 16-channel space or reduced to 256 colors by
the RAW conversion software that translates the image for your image editor. You’ll
find that such 14-bit files end up almost one-third larger than 12-bit files, and that
your camera’s continuous shooting rate may be reduced (which alone is a good argu-
ment for not using the 14-bit setting any time you may need to shoot bursts of
images). 14-bit images are unmatched for HDR photography, however.
White Balance
This menu entry, the first in the second page of Shooting menu entries (see Figure 8.13)
allows you to choose one of the white balance values from among Auto, incandescent,
seven varieties of fluorescent illumination, direct sunlight, flash, cloudy, shade, a spe-
cific color temperature of your choice, or a preset value taken from an existing photo-
graph, or a measurement you make. Some of the settings you make here can be
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Figure 8.13
White Balance
is the first entry
on the second
page of the
Shooting
menu.