Adjusting Color Tones; White Balance - Sony Cyber-shot DSC-L1 Operating Instructions Manual

Adjusting color tones

— White Balance

You can set the white balance mode
according to your shooting conditions. The
apparent color of the subject is affected by
the lighting conditions. When you want to
fix the light source imaging conditions, or
when the color of the entire image seems
to be a bit unnatural, we recommend that
you adjust the white balance setting.
Auto (No indicator)
Adjusts the white balance automatically.
The factory setting is Auto.
(Daylight)
Shooting outdoors, shooting night scenes,
neon signs, fireworks or sunrise, or
shooting just before and after sundown
(Cloudy)
Shooting under a cloudy sky
(Fluorescent)
Shooting under fluorescent lighting
 (Incandescent)
• Places where the lighting conditions
change quickly
• Under bright lighting such as
photography studios
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Before operation
When shooting still images, set
(Camera) in the menu to other than [Auto]
(pages 46 and 109).
Mode switch
MENU
Control button
 Set the mode switch to
.
 Press MENU.
The menu appears.
 Select [WB] (White Bal) with
/, then select the desired
setting with /.
To reactivate auto adjustment
Select [Auto] in step .
• Under fluorescent lights that flicker, the
white balance adjustment function may not
work correctly even though you select
(Fluorescent).
• When the flash strobes, the manual setting is
canceled, and the image is recorded in [Auto].
• Some settings cannot be selected depending on
the Scene Selection mode (page 39).
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