Nikon D500 User Manual page 191

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The Information Display
During viewfinder photography, you can
press the U button to adjust white balance
settings in the information display. Rotate
the main command dial to choose the white
balance mode and rotate the sub-command
dial to choose the color temperature (mode
K, "choose color temperature") or white
balance preset (preset manual mode), or use the multi-selector to fine-
tune white balance on the amber (A)–blue (B) and green (G)–magenta
(M) axes (other white balance modes).
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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.
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"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
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
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