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White balance
- Auto – For automatic control, which provides neutral results in
most situations,
- Seven fixed presets for the most frequent light sources,
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e.g. for outdoor pictures in sunshine,
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e.g. for outdoor pictures in cloudy conditions,
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e.g. for outdoor pictures with the main subject in
shadow,
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e.g. for indoor pictures with (prevailing) incandescent
light
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e.g. for indoor pictures with (prevailing) light from
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fluorescent tubes with warm light color
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e.g. for indoor pictures with (prevailing) light from
fluorescent tubes with cool light color
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e.g. for pictures with (prevailing) electronic flash
illumination
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Manual Metering – For manual setting by metering and
- Color Temperature
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– For a directly adjustable color tempera-
ture value.
Note:
When using the LEICA SF58 or electronic flash units that meet
the technical requirements of System Camera Adaption (SCA)
for the System 3000 and have an SCA-3502 adapter (version 5
onwards), the white balance can be set to Auto to achieve
correct color reproduction.
However, if other flash units are used, which are not specially
designed for the LEICA S2, the
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All color temperatures are specified in Kelvin.
Setting the function
For automatic or fixed settings
1. In the IMAGE section of the menu (see p. 13/22), select
(5.11), and
2. in the associated submenu the desired function.
For direct setting of color temperature
You can directly set values between 2000 and 13100 (K1) (from
2000 to 5000K in increments of 100, from 5000 to 8000K in
increments of 200 and from 8000 to 13,100K in increments of
300). This provides you with a broad scope, covering almost all
color temperatures that can occur in practice and within which
you can adapt the color reproduction very sensitively to the exi-
sting light color and/or your personal preferences.
1. In the IMAGE section of the menu (see p. 13/22), select
White Balance (5.11)
2. in the subsequent submenu select the Color Temperature
option, and
• A further submenu entitled White Balance Kelvin Setting
appears, containing the value to be set, which is indicated
by a red border.
3. then the desired value.
setting should be used.
For manual setting by metering
1. In the IMAGE section of the menu (see p. 13/22), select
White Balance (5.11), and
2. in the subsequent submenu select the Manual Metering
option.
3. Press the click wheel (1.17).
The message Attention Aim the camera at a white surface
and press the shutter release button appears in the moni-
tor.
4. The actual setting is made by subsequently taking a picture in
which you must aim at a white or neutral gray surface in the
center of the picture.
• The picture you have just taken will appear in the monitor
instead of the menu and will contain the message White
balance set.
However, if the exposure is found to be insufficient, an
error message appears. In such cases, repeat step 2 with
the correct exposure setting.
A value set in this way remains stored and will be used for all pic-
tures until it is superseded either by a newly metered value, or
you use one of the other white balance settings.
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