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Redback
Joined: Sep 20, 2004
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Hi, I would like some help on using the white balance in the cam/video settings on my K750i
I've used the search feature but it hasn't asnwered all my questions.
I'm not experienced in photography & have never owned a proper digital camera so this feature is new to me.
OK Auto, Daylight & Cloudy are pretty self-explanatory. So what I want to know is what exactly is the difference bertween the Fluorescent & Incandescent setting? I know they're for indoor light or outdoor darkness, but under which environments do you swap between the two for a better quality pic?
In other words, when are you meant to use Fluor. & when are you meant to use Incan.? I noticed that Fluorescent gives it a more yellowy colour whereas Incandescent gives it a blue tinge.
Which is meant to be the "proper" colour for pics under light or at night? Does the yellow tinge look better than blue tinge, what's meant to be the normal setting?
[ This Message was edited by: Redback on 2005-09-09 01:03 ] |
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max_wedge
Joined: Aug 29, 2004
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Incandescent lights are globes with wire filaments - don't know what they call them where you come from. You know the round screw in or bayonet type light bulb.
Fluorescent lighting is the long thin white lights you get in shopping centres and offices etc, and sometimes in homes. Fluorescent lighting can come in all shapes, it's bulb is like a tube.
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Redback
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OK I get it now. From what I've read the auto function isn't that good so I'll swap them around myself.
Oh and we call them just plain 'lightbulbs' here in Australia. I didn't know they were called something else  |
max_wedge
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hehe, I shoulda just called 'em lightbulbs then (I'm form Aus too)
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kristianm
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If I press the "Info"/Help button for the white balance, it says that "Incandescent" setting is for places with very bright lighting, or where light conditions change quickly. |
max_wedge
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that's true, but nevertheless incadescent lighting refers to the traditional lightbulb - it gives off a yellowish light, in contrast to the blue light of fluorescent lighting.
It simply means the settings compensate for environments where either yellow or blue light dominate. |
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Posted: 2005-09-09 02:00
