Adjusting white balance
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In order to ensure proper white balance, an Auto white balance mode
and five manual white balance modes are provided with this
camera.
For most scenes, select the auto white balance mode. Choose the
manual modes for particular lighting situations. We recommend that
you experiment with the various settings until you are fully familiar
with them.
-When
using
a
speed/ight in external synchro-flash shooting mode, the white balance
is adjusted
between
subject
brightness
and
the
light from
the
flash.
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In
order to ensure proper white balance, an Auto white balance mode
and six manual white balance modes are provided with this camera.
For most scenes, select the auto white balance mode.
Choose
the
manual modes for particular lighting situations. We recommend
that
you experiment with the various settings until you are fully familiar
with
them
.
-
When using
a
speedlight,
or in external synchro-flash shooting
mode,
white balance
is adjusted
between
subject
brightness
and the light from the flash.
The
above
applies to all white
balance
modes,
with the exception of
Flash
mode.
In Flash
mode,
white balance is fixed at preset color
temperature.
While pressing the W.Bal button
,
rotate
the
command dial to change
the mode
.
-The
.
mark in the
LCD
panel settles above one of the following
symbols.
While pressing
the
W.Bal button, rotate the
command
dial to
change
the
mode.
-
The
.
mark in the
LCD
panel settles above one of the following
symbols.
-In
Flash
mode,
both
'*'
and
A
marks light up simultaneously.
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