Reference Manual

200 Menu Guide > C The Photo Shooting Menu
The White Balance Menu: Choosing a Color
Temperature
Color temperature can be selected using the White balance>
Choose color temperature option in the photo shooting menu.
Enter values for the amber–blue and green–magenta axes as
described below.
1 Select Choose color temperature.
Go to White balance in the photo shooting menu, highlight
Choose color temperature and press 2.
D White Balance Fine-Tuning
The colors on the fine-tuning axes are relative, not absolute. For
example, moving the cursor to B (blue) when a “warm” setting such as
J (Incandescent) is selected for white balance will make
photographs slightly “colder” but will not actually make them blue.
D “Mired”
Any given change in color temperature produces a greater difference
in color at low color temperatures than it would at higher color
temperatures. For example, a change of 1000K produces a much
greater change in color at 3000K than at 6000K. Mired, calculated by
multiplying the inverse of the color temperature by 10
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, is a measure of
color temperature that takes such variation into account, and as such is
the unit used in color-temperature compensation filters. E.g.:
• 4000 K–3000 K (a difference of 1000 K)=83 mired
• 7000 K–6000 K (a difference of 1000 K)=24 mired