Datasheet
Table Of Contents
- How to use this manual
- Composition of the manual
- 1 Basic operation
- 2 Tips before you start taking pictures
- 3 Basic shooting functions
- 4 Advanced shooting functions
- Changing the aperture value for shooting pictures
- Changing the shutter speed for shooting pictures
- Changing the aperture value and shutter speed for shooting pictures
- My Mode
- Focusing applications
- Changing the area for measuring the brightness of a subject (ESP/Spot)
- AE lock
- Changing ISO sensitivity (ISO)
- Changing picture brightness
- Adjusting the white balance
- Adjusting a picture for recording (SHARPNESS/ CONTRAST/SATURATION)
- Reducing picture noise (NOISE REDUCTION)
- 5 Additional shooting functions
- 6 Playback
- Playing back still pictures
- Playing back movies
- Playing back albums
- Slideshow
- Adding sound to still pictures
- Editing still pictures (RAW DATA EDIT/Resizing/Trimming/REDEYE FIX/ BLACK & WHITE/SEPIA)
- Creating composite pictures (FRAME/ TITLE/CALENDAR/LAYOUT)
- Adjusting pictures (BRIGHTNESS/ SATURATION)
- Editing movies
- Playing back pictures on a TV
- Protecting pictures
- Copying pictures in the internal memory to the card (BACKUP)
- Erasing pictures
- Formatting the internal memory or card (MEMORY FORMAT/FORMAT)
- 7 Settings
- Resetting the settings to the default (RESET)
- Selecting a display language
- Changing the startup screen and shutdown screen (PW ON SETUP/PW OFF SETUP)
- Viewing pictures immediately (REC VIEW)
- Setting camera sounds (Beep sound/BEEP/SHUTTER SOUND/ VOLUME)
- Resetting file names (FILE NAME)
- Adjusting the image processing function (PIXEL MAPPING)
- Adjusting the monitor brightness
- Setting the date and time
- Setting the date and time in another time zone (DUAL TIME SETUP)
- Setting the measurement unit (m/ft)
- Customizing the camera (MY MODE SETUP/ SHORT CUT/CUSTOM BUTTON)
- 8 Printing pictures
- 9 Connecting the camera to a computer
- 10 Appendix
- 11 Miscellaneous

Adjusting the white balance
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Advanced shooting functions
This function allows you to set the white balance compensation and make fine
changes to the currently set white balance.
Top menu [MODE MENU] [PICTURE] [>]
g“Using the menus” (P. 17)
1 Press sr to adjust the white
balance, and press Z.
• The color becomes more blue each
time you press s, and more red
each time you press
r.
• The white balance can be adjusted in
7 increments in both the [RED] and
[BLUE] directions.
Note
• White balance may not be effective under some special light sources.
• When taking pictures with the white balance on a setting other than [AUTO],
play back the picture and check the colors on the monitor.
• When the flash is fired with a white balance setting other than [AUTO], colors
may appear different in the resulting picture from the colors you see on the
monitor.
• When setting the white balance by pointing the camera at a sheet of white
paper, the correct setting may not be obtained if the light reflected by the paper
is too bright or too dark.
White balance compensation
OK
RED
RED
BLUE
BLUE
SELECT
GO
WB compensation indicator










