Adjusting color (WB (white balance))

Incandescent (3000 K)

Sunny (5300 K)

Shade (7500 K)

White balance (WB) ensures that white objects in images recorded by the camera appear white. [AUTO] is suitable in most circumstances, but other values can be selected according to the light source when [AUTO] fails to produce the desired results or you wish to introduce a deliberate color cast into your images.

Adjusting Settings

  1. Press Q to display the live control.

    • To hide the live control, press Q again.

  2. Use FG to highlight White Balance.

    White Balance

  3. Highlight an option using HI and press the Q button.

Options

gAdjusting Settings

Auto white balance

WB mode Color temperature Light conditions
AUTO —

For most light conditions (when there is a white portion framed on the monitor). Use this mode for general use.

  • When this option is highlighted, you can press the INFO button and use FGHI or the control dial to select [On] or [Off] for [W Keep Warm Color].

    gW Keep Warm Color

Preset white balance

WB mode Color temperature Light conditions
5 5300 K For shooting outdoors on a clear day, or to capture the reds in a sunset or the colors in a fireworks display
N 7500 K For shooting outdoors in the shadows on a clear day
O 6000 K For shooting outdoors on a cloudy day
1 3000 K For shooting under a tungsten light
> 4000 K For shooting under a fluorescent light
n 5500 K For flash shooting

One-touch white balance

WB mode Color temperature Light conditions
P/
Q/
W/
X		 Color temperature set by one-touch WB

Press the INFO button to measure white balance using a white or gray target when using a flash or other light source of an unknown type or when shooting under mixed lighting.

gOne-touch white balance

Custom white balance

WB mode Color temperature Light conditions
CWB 2000 K – 14000 K After pressing the INFO button, use FGHI to select a color temperature and then press the Q button.

One-touch white balance

Measure white balance by framing a piece of paper or other white object under the lighting that will be used in the final photograph. This is useful when shooting a subject under natural light, as well as under various light sources with different color temperatures.

  1. Select [P], [Q], [W], or [X] (one-touch white balance 1, 2, 3, or 4) and press the INFO button.

  2. Photograph a piece of colorless (white or gray) paper.

    • Frame the paper so that it fills the display and no shadows fall it.
    • The one-touch white balance screen appears.

  3. Select [Yes] and press the Q button.

    • The new value is saved as a preset white balance option.
    • The new value is stored until one-touch white balance is measured again. Turning the power off does not erase the data.