Olympus E-1 - Setting the White Balance; Setting the One-Touch White Balance; Optional Electronic Flashes

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Shooting
Setting the one-touch white balance
This function is useful when you need a more precise white balance than preset WB can
provide. Point the camera at a white object under the light source you want to use to
determine the white balance. The optimum white balance for the current shooting
conditions can be saved in the camera. Up to 4 settings can be registered as one-touch
WB settings.
Optional electronic flashes
You can take advantage of a variety of flash shooting techniques to suit different shooting
conditions with the flash units specified for use with this camera — the Olympus FL-50,
FL-40, and FL-20 electronic flashes.
Flash mode :
The camera sets the flash mode according to various factors such as firing pattern and
flash timing. Available flash modes depend on the exposure mode.
You can set the flash mode even when no flash is attached to the camera.
Flash modes available in the exposure mode
* When the flash is set to the Super FP mode, it detects backlight before emitting light.
Exposure
mode
Control panel
indication
(No indication) Auto-flash
Auto-flash
(Red-eye reduction)
1st
curtain
2nd
curtain
2nd
curtain
1st
curtain
Always fires
Fires
automatically
in dark/backlit *
conditions
Restricted to
2 - 1/180 sec.
1/30 - 1/180 with
auto/
Restricted to
60 -1/180 sec.
Always fires
1st
curtain
1st
curtain
Slow synchronization
(Red-eye reduction)
Slow synchronization
(2nd curtain)
Fill-in flash
(Red-eye reduction)
Fill-in flash
(2nd curtain)
Fill-in flash
Fill-in flash
Slow synchronization
Flash mode
Flash
timing
Conditions to
fire the flash
Shutter speed
restrictions
P
A
S
M
Setting the white balance
You can adjust the white balance by selecting the appropriate color temperature for the
light conditions.
WB
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