Taking Photographs—Advanced Photography104Preset White BalancePreset white balance is used to adjust white bal-ance when shooting under mixed lighting or tocompensate for light sources with a strong colorcast (for example, to make photographs takenunder a lamp with a red shade look as though theyhad been taken under white light). When(White Bal Preset) is selected from the white-bal-ance menu, the camera will zoom in and the menushown at right will be displayed in the monitor.Option DescriptionCancelRecalls the most recent setting for preset whitebalance from memory and sets white balance to thisvalue.MeasureTo measure a new value for white balance, place awhite object, such as a piece of paper, under thelighting that will be used in the final photograph.Frame this object so that it fills the square in thecenter of the menu shown above. Highlight Mea-sure and press the multi selector to the right tomeasure a new value for white balance (shutter willbe released and camera will return to original zoomposition, but no photograph will be recorded).
