Sony DSLR-A100 User's Manual / Troubleshooting page 48

• Pressing • compensates toward M (Magenta), and pressing • toward G (Green). This compensation
can adjust among nine steps in each direction.
• Tile increment on tile scale is equivalent to approximately 5CC.
(_) Press the center of the controller.
• If you cbange the color temperature al_er adjusting the CC filter, the actual CC fiftcr value reflects the
new color tenlperature.
In a scene where the ambient light consists of multiple types of light source, use of custom
white balance is recommended in order to accurately reproduce the whiteness.
(!) Display the White-balance mode screen with the fimction dial and the Fn button (page 43).
@ Display the Custom white balance screen x_ith&IT on the controller, then press _.
Custom wbRe balance
AWB
Recall
_-+0
O:_elect O:entet
(_) Select [_.aSET] with • on the controller, then press the center of the controller.
The message "Use spot metering area. Press shutter to calibrate." appears on the LCD monitor.
(_) Hold the camera so that the white arel fully covers the spot-metering circle and press the shutter
button down. The shutter clicks and the calibrated values lColor temperature and CC) are
displayed.
• Tile locus does not have to be confirmed.
(g) Press Ihe center of the controller.
The monitor relurns to the recording inlbrmation screen with Ibe memorized cuslom white
balance setting retained.
To call the custom white balance setting
lit step @ above, select [_ll_l ] with 41/li...then press the center of the controller.
• The custom white balance setting registered in this operation is ellcctive until a new selling is rcgislercd.
(The selling is rct_dned after the power is turned oil.)
• If the flash is used when the shuuer buuon is pressvd, a custom white balance is registered wilh the flash
light taken into account. Take pictures with die flash in haer sbootings.
• Tbe message "Custom WB enor." indicates lbal the value is beyond the expected range. (When lhe flash
is used on a subject in close proximity or a subject with a bright color is in the halne.) The value is
registered and the txJ,_indicator turns yellow on the incoMing inlonnation display on the LCD monitor.
You can shool al lhis poinl, bill il is recomlnended tbal you set file while balance again to get a more
correct wbile balance value.
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