Setting The White Balance - Canon PowerShot S30 User Manual

Setting the White Balance

When the white balance mode is set to match the light source, the camera can
reproduce colors more accurately. Set the white balance mode to a natural or
artificial light setting according to the circumstances.
Settings are automatically set by the camera
Auto
Daylight For recording outdoors on a bright day
For recording under overcast, shady or twilight skies
Cloudy
Tungsten For recording under tungsten and bulb-type 3-wavelength fluorescent lighting
For recording under warm-white, cool-white or warm-white (3-wavelength) fluorescent lighting
Fluorescent
Fluorescent H For recording under daylight fluorescent, or daylight fluorescent-type 3-wavelength fluorescent lighting
For flash photography
Flash
For setting a custom value with a white sheet of paper, etc., to obtain the optimal white balance for
Custom
the conditions
1
Press the
• The balance setting menu appears on the LCD
monitor.
2
Select a setting using B or A on the
multicontroller.
• Please see the next page regarding the
3
Press .
• You can also take the picture in the set white balance mode by pressing the
shutter button without pressing
4
Shoot the image.
• If you pressed the shutter button at Step 3, the current white balance mode will
reappear after the shot, allowing you to change the setting for the next shot.
• This setting cannot be adjusted in the
modes. In
• The metering mode (p. 82) cannot be changed and the macro mode cannot be set
while the white balance setting menu appears on the LCD monitor.
• The selected shooting mode will determine whether or not the white balance
setting is cancelled when the camera is turned off (p. 90).
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Shooting - Selecting Particular Effects
button twice.
mode, it can only be adjusted for the first image.
custom setting.
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and (Sepia and B/W) shooting