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184 The “Recording” (Camera icon) Menu Settings

5.22.2 TWEAKING THE PRE-SET WHITE BALANCE

Flash with “Flash” Flash w/ Daylight

Daylight WB Flash WB

Figure 5-40: White balance was more intuitive in the old days. Six years ago all of
the squares on top would have looked pretty similar. But now, in an effort to be
more like Canon, Sony has tweaked their “Flash WB” to be a little more yellowish
than the daylight version, providing for warmer skin tones.

When choosing a pre-set white balance as described above, your camera
gives you the opportunity to do a local tweak of the correction. (Even for
the Auto White Balance setting.) Just navigate to any of the pre-set white
balance options and then hit the right arrow button. A screen very much
like the one in Figure 5-41 will appear.

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