Setting The Auto/Preset/Custom White Balance - Olympus EVOLT E-510 Instruction Manual

Color temperature
The spectral balance of different white light
sources is rated numerically by color
temperature — concept of physics,
expressed using the Kelvin (K) temperature
scale. The higher the color temperature, the
richer the light in bluish tones and the poorer
in reddish; the lower the color temperature,
the richer the light in reddish tones and the
poorer in bluish.
It follows, then, that the color temperatures
of fluorescent lights make them unsuitable
as artificial light sources. There are gaps in
the hues from the color temperatures of
fluorescent light. If these differences in hue are small, they can be calculated with color
temperature and this is called correlated color temperature.
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The 4000K, 4500K and 6600K preset settings in this camera are correlated color
temperatures, and should not be considered strictly as color temperatures. Use these
settings for shooting conditions under fluorescent lights.

Setting the auto/preset/custom white balance

You can adjust the white balance by selecting the appropriate color temperature for the light
conditions.
Direct button
WB Control dial
Control panel screen
i p: WB i
[AUTO]/[5]/[2]/[3]/[1]/[w]/[x]/[y]/[V]/[CWB]
• CWB (custom white balance) is set by selecting [CWB]
and turn the control dial while pressing down the F
(exposure compensation) button.
Menu
MENU [W] [WB]
• You can check the settings in the viewfinder while using the
WB button to make the settings.
Viewfinder
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EN
: Auto white balance
: w/x/y
: Custom white balance
: One-touch white balance
• The color temperatures for each light source
indicated in the above scale are approximate.
MENU button
Control dial
F button
WB button
i button
WB