Setting The White Balance; Setting The One-Touch White Balance; Optional Electronic Flashes - Olympus E-1 Basic Manual

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Setting the white balance

You can adjust the white balance by selecting the appropriate color temperature for the
light conditions.

Setting the one-touch white balance

This function is useful when you need a more precise white balance than preset WB can
provide. Point the camera at a white object under the light source you want to use to
determine the white balance. The optimum white balance for the current shooting
conditions can be saved in the camera. Up to 4 settings can be registered as one-touch
WB settings.

Optional electronic flashes

You can take advantage of a variety of flash shooting techniques to suit different shooting
conditions with the flash units specified for use with this camera — the Olympus FL-50,
FL-40, and FL-20 electronic flashes.
Flash mode
The camera sets the flash mode according to various factors such as firing pattern and
flash timing. Available flash modes depend on the exposure mode.
You can set the flash mode even when no flash is attached to the camera.
Flash modes available in the exposure mode
Exposure Control panel
mode indication
(No indication)
P
A
S
M
* When the flash is set to the Super FP mode, it detects backlight before emitting light.
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Flash mode
Auto-flash
Auto-flash
(Red-eye reduction)
Slow synchronization
(Red-eye reduction)
Slow synchronization
Slow synchronization
(2nd curtain)
Fill-in flash
Fill-in flash
Fill-in flash
(Red-eye reduction)
Fill-in flash
(2nd curtain)
Flash Conditions to Shutter speed
timing fire the flash
1/30 - 1/180 with
1st
Fires
curtain
automatically
in dark/backlit *
conditions
2nd
curtain
1st
Always fires
curtain
1st
curtain
1st
Always fires
curtain
2nd
curtain
Shooting
En
WB
restrictions
auto/
Restricted to
2 - 1/180 sec.
Restricted to
60 -1/180 sec.
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