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Menu Guide / Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu
Copying White Balance from a Photograph
A white balance value copied from an existing photograph can be used for preset white
balance. Select
White balance
>
White balance preset
in the shooting menu. The menu
shown in Step 1 will be displayed.
1
Highlight
Use photo
.
*
2
Display current source photo.
* To use last measured value (
60), highlight
Measure
and press multi selector right.
3
Highlight
Select image
.
†
4
Display folder list.
† To use the previous source photo, highlight
This image
and press multi selector right.
5
Highlight folder.
6
Display images in selected folder.
7
Highlight photograph.
‡
8
Set preset white balance to value for high-
lighted photograph and return to shooting
menu.
‡ Images displayed may include those created with other cameras, but only photographs created
with D80 can be used as source for preset white balance.
Note that if a new value is measured for white balance, white balance will be set to the mea-
sured value even if
Use photo
is currently selected in the preset white balance menu.
White Balance (P, S, A, and M Modes)
Nine options are available for white balance. See “Reference: White Bal-
ance” ( 58).