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188 The “Recording” (Camera icon) Menu Settings

white surface and press the shutter release button.
3. Press the center button to confirm. Notice that the screen in Figure
5-43c actually gives you the values of the correction it is about to store
(“4600K M1”) on the screen.
4. From then on, the corrections you just set will be employed in all future
images (until you choose a new value, of course!) This value is stored
in the “Custom” WB setting (the one just above Custom Setup in the
menu) and the value can be instantly recalled just by selecting this in
the future.
5. As with the pre-set white balances, you can tweak this setting if you
want to by going to Menu  5  White Balance  Custom,
hitting the RIGHT arrow, and then tweaking the custom white balance
using the 4-axis graph. (But you should never want to.)

5.23 DRO / AUTO HDR
Menu Position MENU  5  DRO / Auto HDR

What it Does Lets you choose settings for two different functions that are
designed to “expand” the dynamic range of the camera (I used the quotes
on purpose)
Recommended Setting D-Range Optimizer - Auto

This menu function controls one of two features that are designed to
address the problem of “Your eye can see much more dynamic range than
the sensor can”.
The first is Dynamic Range Optimization. When this feature is enabled in
its default configuration, in certain circumstances, the camera will examine
the brightness range of the image you just took and, if it feels the image
will benefit, will attempt to lighten some of the shadows before it writes it
to the memory card. When used properly it can really make your images
look brighter and, for lack of a better word, “Happier”. You can see an
example of it in action in Figure 5-44.

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