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White balance
- Auto For automatic control, which provides neutral results in most
situations,
- Eight fixed presets for the most frequent light sources,
- e.g. for outdoor pictures in sunshine,
- e.g. for outdoor pictures in overcast conditions,
- e.g. for outdoor pictures with the main subject in shadow,
- e.g. for indoor pictures with (prevailing) incandescent lamp light
- e.g. for indoor pictures with (prevailing) light from
halogen metal vapor lamps (HMI)
- e.g. for indoor pictures with (prevailing) light from
fluorescent tubes with warm light color
- e.g. for indoor pictures with (prevailing) light from
fluorescent tubes with cool light color
- e.g. for pictures with (prevailing) electronic flash,
- Greycard for manual setting by measurement, and
-
Color temperature 1 for a directly adjustable color temperature
value.
Note:
When using the Leica SF 58 or electronic flash units that meet the tech-
nical requirements of System Camera Adaption (SCA) for the System
3002 and with an SCA-3502 adapter (version 5 onwards), the white bal-
ance can be set to Auto to achieve correct color reproduction.
However, if other flash units that are not specially designed for the Leica S
are used, the setting should be used.
1 All color temperatures are specified in Kelvin.
Setting the function
Automatic and fixed settings
1. In the IMAGE menu (see p. 16/26), select White Balance (5.13), and
2. then the desired function in the submenu.
Direct color temperature setting
You can directly set values between 2000 and 13100 (K1) (from 2000 to
5000K in increments of 100, from 5000 to 8000K in increments of 200
and from 8000 to 13 100K in increments of 300). This provides you with
a broad scope, covering most of the color temperatures that can occur in
practice and within which you can adapt the color reproduction very sen-
sitively to the existing light color and/or your personal preferences.
1. In the IMAGE menu (see p. 16/26), select White Balance (5.13),
2. the Color temperature option in the submenu, and
A further submenu appears - White Balance Kelvin-Setting showing
the value to be set, which is indicated by a red outline.
3. then the desired value.
Manual setting by metering
1. In the IMAGE menu (see p. 16/26), select White Balance (5.13), and
2. then the Greycard option in the submenu.
3. Press the click wheel (1.18) or the joystick (1.17) inwards or to the
right
The message Attention Please take a picture for setting the white
balance appears in the monitor.
4. Take the picture, making sure that the image field contains a white or
neutral gray (reference) surface.
The monitor shows
- the image based on the automatic white balance setting
- cross hairs in the center of the image
- the button functions valid in this situation - PREVIEW (4.1.11) and
BACK (4.1.12)
5. Press the joystick (1.17) in the desired direction to move the cross
hairs to the subject detail you want to use as the basis for the new
white balance setting (e.g. the reference surface mentioned above).
6. Press the PREVIEW button or press the joystick inwards.
The color reproduction of the picture is adjusted accordingly and the
button function valid in this situation - SAVE (4.1.13) - also appears.
7. You can now either
- apply this new white balance setting - by pressing the SAVE button,
The monitor shows the message Whitebalance is set
- or make any number of further settings, as described under 3. - 6.
In each case, the message described under 3. appears in the moni-
tor.
Note:
In parallel to a saved white balance setting, the corresponding picture is
also always saved, i.e. in addition to the unchanged original picture.
A value set in this way remains saved for and will be used for all pictures
until it is superseded by a new metered value or you use one of the other
white balance settings.
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