Color K White Balance; Convenient Settings K Customizing Functions; A Guide To Functions For Different Subjects; Taking Landscape Pictures - Olympus E-520 Instruction Manual

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Color k White balance

Besides sunlight, there are other sources for illuminating the subject, such as tungsten and

fluorescent lighting. These types of lighting contain particular colors; therefore, the same

white object shot under different lighting has slightly different colors. Even under the same

sunlight, the colors in the picture differ depending on the sky conditions, the shadows of trees

or buildings, and other factors. White balance automatically corrects the effects from these

types of lighting and enables shooting with the right colors. You can usually obtain the right

colors with the white balance set to [AUTO]. Depending on the shooting conditions, however,

you may not be able to obtain the intended colors. In this case, change the setting

accordingly.

g"Selecting the white balance" (P. 64)

Tungsten light

Shade of tree

Fluorescent light

This camera is equipped with various shooting functions that can be customized for ease of

use.

For example, if you want to take several pictures of the same subject using the same

settings, you can register those settings as My Mode for use at a later time. You can then

easily load that registered My Mode and use it as the shooting mode.

To focus on the subject and then recompose the shot, you can set [AEL/AFL] so that auto

focus can be done by pressing the AEL/AFL button, and then you can lock the exposure by

pressing the shutter button halfway.

You can customize other camera operations, such as by changing the functions assigned to

the buttons and by changing the time that the direct buttons remain selected.

g"MY MODE SETUP" (P. 92), "AEL/AFL" (P. 90), "; FUNCTION" (P. 91),

"j FUNCTION" (P. 92), "BUTTON TIMER" (P. 92)

This section describes the functions suitable under different shooting conditions depending

on the subject.

This section describes how to take outdoor scenery pictures of forests, lakes and beaches in

daylight.

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