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White balance, Information, Selecting the white balance – Sony 300 User Manual

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White Balance

Different lighting conditions may cause a color cast on your images.
The white balance control allows you to adjust the colors to appear more natural looking.
The changed white balance value is maintained until the camera power is off.
There are 5 white balance menus : AUTO/ DAYLIGHT/ SUNSET/ FLUORESCENT

/ TUNGSTEN

Selecting the white balance

1. Rotate the mode dial to the STILL IMAGE mode

and press the MENU button.

2. Press the UP( )/ DOWN ( ) button and select

[WHITE BALANCE].

3. Press the SET( ) button and the sub menu will be

displayed.

4. Press the UP( )/ DOWN ( ) button and select

the desired white balance sub menu.

5. Press the SET( ) button to confirm the setting.

The default is [AUTO].

6. Press the MENU button to cancel the menu

display.

STILL IMAGE

WHITE BALANCE

AUTO

EXIT:MENU

SET:

STILL IMAGE

IMAGE SIZE

QUALITY

WHITE BALANCE

AUTO

EXPOSURE

0.0

EXIT:MENU

CHANGE:

AUTO

: The camera automatically selects the appropriate white balance

settings, depending on the prevailing lighting conditions.

DAYLIGHT

: For taking images outside on a bright day.

SUNSET

: For taking images at sunset

FLUORESCENT

: For taking images under fluorescent lighting

TUNGSTEN

: For taking images under tungsten (standard light bulb) lighting.

If you change the white balance value in the STILL IMAGE mode, the changed value is
also applied to the MOVIE CLIP mode.

INFORMATION