Reference Guide (PDF Edition)

To choose a white balance setting using the command dials, press
the Fn button while shooting information is display
ed. The selected
setting can be fine-tuned using the multi selector while the Fn
button is pressed.
Tip: The Information Display
Tip: White Balance Fine-Tuning
The color
s on the fine-tuning axes are relative, not absolute. Selecting more of a color on a given axis
does not necessarily result in that color appearing in pictures. For example, moving the cursor to “B”
(blue) when a “warm” setting such as J[Incandescent] is selected will make pictures slightly “colder”
but will not actually make them blue.
Tip: “Mired”
Values in mired are calculated by multiplying the inverse of the color temperature by 10
6
. 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 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.: Change in color temperature (in Kelvin): Value in mired
4000K – 3000K = 1000K: 83 mired
7000K – 6000K = 1000K: 24 mired
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