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Hold down the manual white
balance button and press the
shutter release button.
Set correctly:
[OK] appears on the LCD monitor.
Incorrectly set:
[NG] appears on the LCD monitor.
The color of light shifts to a bluish color as the color temperature rises, and
to a reddish color as the color temperature falls. Color temperature
describes this change in light color in terms of absolute temperature (K:
Kelvin). This camera is capable of setting the white balance to enable
taking pictures with natural coloring under a variety of lighting conditions.
• No image is recorded when the shutter release button is pressed to register
the white balance.
• The registered white balance is only enabled when white balance is set to
[
K
].
Color temperature
2000
3000
4000
5000 6000
8000
10000 12000 [ K ]
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