Using preset white balance – Olympus E-20N User Manual

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Color Temperature

Display Comment

Monitor

Control Panel
Display

Quick reference
white balance
(Color temperature
not displayed.)

AUTO, -A-

3000K

3700K

4000K

4500K

5500K

6500K

7500K

The camera selects the whitest portion of the picture
framed in the viewfinder. Used for most scenes.

Select to shoot under incandescent light to
preserve the mood of the lighting.

Select to shoot under white fluorescent lighting.

Select to shoot in daylight with white fluorescent
lighting.

Select to shoot outdoors on a clear day, to shoot
sunsets in red, or to shoot fireworks displays.

Select to shoot outdoors on a cloudy day.

Select to shoot outdoors in the shadows on a clear
day.

(

➞ 105)

Select to shoot under incandescent light.

Displayed for white balance
settings other than AUTO

Viewfinder

Control panel

--” displayed for correlative
color temperature

Control panel

Monitor

Color
temperature

Color
temperature

button

1

Using Preset White Balance

Use preset white balance to select the color temperature (measured on the Kelvin
temperature scale “K”) for the light source. (

➞ 103)

1

Press and hold down the white
balance mode button

, and then

turn the main dial or the sub dial.

The setting is displayed in the shutter
speed display area of the control panel
and viewfinder. The image adjusted with
the displayed color temperature appears in
the monitor.

2

When you see the color
temperature setting you desire in
the control panel or viewfinder,
stop turning the dial.

The WB mark appears in the control panel
and the viewfinder.

3

Take the picture.

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