Fine-Tuning White Balance - Nikon D3000 User Manual

Fine-Tuning White Balance
White balance can be "fine tuned" to compensate for variations in the color of the
light source or to introduce a deliberate color cast into an image. White balance is
fine tuned using the White balance option in the shooting menu.
Display white balance options.
To display the menus, press the MENU button.
Highlight White balance in the shooting
menu and press I_ to display white balance
options.
MENU b utton
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Select a white balance option.
Highlight an option other than Preset
manual and press I_ (if Fluorescent is
selected, highlight a lighting type and press
I_). The fine-tuning options shown at right
will be displayed. Fine-tuning is not
available with Preset manual white balance.
3
Fine tune white balance.
Use the multi selector to fine-tune white
balance.
Coordinates
Adjustment
Increase green
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crease -- 9_//_l_-_K/--Increase
In
blue _____ amber
Increase magen ta
[] White Balance Fine Tuning
The colors on the fine-tuning axes are relative, not absolute. For example, moving the
cursor to B(blue) when a "warm" setting such as _ (incandescent) is selected will
make photographs slightly "colder" but will not actually make them blue.
4 Press _).
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