Owner's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Pocket Guide
- Instruction Manual
- Restore Default Settings
- Introduction
- Conventions Used in This Manual
- Table of Contents
- Index to Features
- Quick Start Guide
- Supplied Accessories
- Parts & Controls
- Getting Started
- Attaching the Straps
- Charging the Battery
- Installing / Removing the Battery
- Installing & Removing a Memory Card
- Power On
- Setting the Date, Time & Time Zone
- Setting the Language
- Mounting & Detaching a Lens
- About Lens Image Stabilizer
- Basic Operation
- Quick Control for Shooting Functions
- Menu Operations
- Formatting a Memory Card
- Setting the Power-Off Time / Auto Power Off
- Setting the Image Review Time
- Restore Default Settings
- Displaying the Grid and Electronic Level
- Feature Guide
- Basic Shooting
- Setting the AF and Drive Modes
- Image Settings
- Selecting the Card for Recording and Playback
- Image Quality
- ISO Speed
- Picture Style
- Customizing a Picture Style
- Registering a Picture Style
- White Balance
- White Balance Correction
- Correcting the Brightness and Contrast Automatically
- Noise Reduction Settings
- Highlight Tone Priority
- Lens Peripheral Illumination / Chromatic Aberration Correction
- Creating and Selecting a Folder
- Changing the File Name
- File Numbering Methods
- Setting Copyright Information
- Setting the Color Space
- Advanced Operations
- Flash Photography
- Shooting with the LCD Monitor (Live View Shooting)
- Shooting Movies
- Image Playback
- Image Playback
- Shooting Information Display
- Searching for Images Quickly
- Magnified View
- Comparing Images (Two-Image Display)
- Rotating the Image
- Setting Ratings
- Quick Control During Playback
- Enjoying Movies
- Playing Movies
- Editing the Movie’s First and Last Scenes
- Slide Show
- Viewing the Images on TV
- Protecting Images
- Copying Images
- Erasing Images
- Changing Image Playback Settings
- Post-Processing Images
- Sensor Cleaning
- Printing Images and Transferring Images to a Computer
- Customizing the Camera
- Reference
- Software Start Guide
- System Map / Optional Accessories
- Troubleshooting
- Error Codes
- Specs
- Index
- Scans of CD-ROMs
- Warranty
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White balance (WB) is for making the white areas look white. Normally, the
<
Q
> (Auto) setting will obtain the correct white balance. If natural-looking
colors cannot be obtained with <
Q
>, you can select the white balance to
match the light source or set it manually by shooting a white object.
<Q> is automatically set in the <A> mode.
1
Press the <n> button. (9)
2
Select the white balance.
While looking at the LCD panel, turn
the <5> dial.
* Applicable with Speedlites having a color temperature transmission function.
Otherwise, it will be fixed to approx. 6000K.
To the human eye, a white object looks white regardless of the type of lighting.
With a digital camera, the color temperature is adjusted with software to make
the white areas look white. This adjustment serves as the basis for the color
correction. The result is natural-looking colors in the pictures.
B: Setting the White BalanceN
Display Mode
Color Temperature (Approx. K: Kelvins)
Q Auto 3000 - 7000
W Daylight 5200
E Shade 7000
R Cloudy, twilight, sunset 6000
Y Tungsten light 3200
U White fluorescent light 4000
D Flash use Automatically set*
O Custom (p.138) 2000 - 10000
P Color temperature (p.139) 2500 - 10000
About White Balance
You can also set this with [z2: White balance].