Fine-Tuning White Balance - Nikon D60 User Manual

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Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu
[] Color Temperature
The perceived color of a light source varies with the viewer and other conditions. Color temperature
is an objective measure of the color of a light source,defined with reference to the temperature to
which an object would have to be heated to radiate light in the same wavelengths. While light
sources with a color temperature in tile neighborhood of 5,000- 5,500Kappear white, light sources
with a lower color temperature, such asincandescent light bulbs, appear slightly yellow or red. Light
sources with a higher color temperature appear tinged with blue.
Approximate color temperatures for each white balance setting are given below (when fine tuned
white balance setting is _+0). Valuesmay differ from color temperatures given by photo color meters.
White balance temperature White balance temperature
AUTO Auto 3,500 K-8,000 K _ 6 Daylight fluorescent GS00 K
_ Irlcarldescent
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Sodium-vapor lamps
2 Warm-white fl.
3 White fluorescent
_ 4 Cool-whitefluorescent
,,,,,_ Day white fluorescent
3,000 K
2,700 K
3,000 K
3,700 K
4,200 K
5,000 K
7 Mercury-vapor lamps 7,200 K
"_{,'- Direct sunlight 5,200 K
Flash 5,400 K
Cloudy 6,000 K
A Shade 8,000 K
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Fine-Tuning White Balance
Unless Preset manual isselected, 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.
1 Select a white balance option except Preset
manual.
SelectWhite balance in the shooting menu, then
highlight a white balance option and pressthe multi
selector right. If Fluorescent is selected, highlight a
lighting type and pressthe multi selector right.
2 Fine tune white balance.
Use the multi selector to finetune white balance. White
balance can be fine tuned on the amber (A)-blue (B) axis
and the green (G)-magenta (M) axis. The horizontal
(amberblue) axis corresponds to color temperature, with
each increment equivalent to about 5 mired. The vertical
(greenmagenta) axis has the similar effects to the
corresponding color compensation (CC) filters.
Green (G)
Increase green
Blue
Increase magenta
Magenta (M)
Increase blue .-
(A)
Increase amber
Adjustment
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