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Taking Photographs—White Balance

Keeping Colors True

Fine-Tuning White Balance

At settings other than PRE (preset), white balance

can be “fine tuned” to compensate for variations

in the color of the light source or to introduce a

deliberate “warm” or “cold” cast into an image.

Higher settings can be used to lend images a blu-

ish tinge or to compensate for light sources with

a yellow or red cast, while lowering white balance can make photographs

appear slightly more yellow or red or compensate for light sources with a blue

cast. Adjustments can be made in the range +3 to –3 in increments of one.

In Auto mode, each increment is equivalent to about 10 mired. At other

settings, white balance is adjusted as shown below:

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Approximate Color Temperature

6,700 K2,700 K 2,700 K 4,800 K 4,800 K 5,400 K+3

7,100 K2,800 K 3,000 K 4,900 K 5,000 K 5,600 K+2

7,500 K2,900 K 3,700 K 5,000 K 5,200 K 5,800 K+1

8,000 K3,000 K 4,200 K 5,200 K 5,400 K 6,000 K±0

8,400 K3,100 K 5,000 K 5,300 K 5,600 K 6,200 K–1

8,800 K3,200 K 6,500 K 5,400 K 5,800 K 6,400 K–2

9,200 K3,300 K 7,200 K 5,600 K 6,000 K 6,600 K–3

*The camera color temperature setting may differ from the value for color temperature

measured with a photo color meter.

†The size of the increments for Fluorescent reflects the wide variations in color tem-

perature among the many different types of fluorescent light source, ranging from

low-temperature stadium lighting to high-temperature mercury-vapor lamps.

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Nikon D100 User Manual Page 65