Nikon D300 Complete Manual page 325

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Nikon uses hue adjustments to shift the colors to better match

the odd balances of fluorescent tubes, so I've not included

them in the above table. Because fluorescent lighting uses

colored phosphors that don't produce the entire light

spectrum, and because those phosphors decay at different

rates, most digital cameras have fluorescent settings that

attempt to deal with the overabundance of green/blue values

such light produces. The D300 does this, too. If you use the

fluorescent white balance settings on light that was produced

by a continuous spectrum light source (most other lighting),

you're likely to see a cyan and/or green shift.)

Let's put the D300 preset and settable Kelvin values in context

of actual lighting sources (all values except the first can be set

on the D300 in some way):

Thom Hogan's Complete Guide to the Nikon D300

Candlelight (value can't be set on D300)

(lowest value that can be set on D300)

INCANDESCENT b6

INCANDESCENT b4, 75-watt bulb

INCANDESCENT b2, 100-watt bulb

INCANDESCENT, 200-watt bulb

INCANDESCENT a2

INCANDESCENT a4, Tungsten lighting

INCANDESCENT a6

Standard photolamp

DIRECT SUN b6

DIRECT SUN b4

DIRECT SUN b2

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