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World Exclusive Review: Nikon D80 Digital SLR

By Daniel Lim - 10 Aug 2006

Tried and Tested: White Balance

Tried and Tested: White Balance

The Nikon D80 has a range of white balance options available ranging from auto white balance, six manual modes with fine-tuning, color temperature settings (in Kelvin) to preset white balancing. For our test shots, we chose the two most commonly used white balance modes: - fluorescent and tungsten settings.

White Balance Performance under Daylight Condition

Auto mode setting

Fluorescent setting

Auto white balance worked reasonably well under both daylight and fluorescent lighting conditions - even though colors were found to be a little on the light side. In automatic white balance mode however, blues seemed to be a little off but was still pretty accurate enough for print.


White Balance Performance under Tungsten Lighting Condition

Auto mode setting

Tungsten setting

When our Color Rendition Chart was photographed in automatic mode under tungsten lighting, it turned out to be completely off with a strong orange cast over the entire color palette. Using the tungsten mode on the camera, the color chart took on a heavier tinge of blue instead and it was most visible on the top right bluish green color block.

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