D90 manual white ballance

[villainmack]

Hello mates,

I use Nikon D90 and just curious about something.. When I use manual white ballance my presets goes on D-0 D-1 D-2 D-3 .... The thing is.. I dont know how to delete presets from white ballance menu, I looked up user manual but nothing Anyone know a way deleting presets?

Thanks...

[chris-p]

I don't think you can delete them. You should be able to overwrite them though.

[PaulC 2]

hi! found this on the web hopefully its what you need. So it looks like you can store a different WB setup in each of the locations

Preset (PRE)

You use this setting with a white or gray card to get perfect color matching. The D90 can recall five settings: just hold "WB" and spin the front knob after choosing PRE with the rear knob. You can to use menus to save the five settings.

I never use an actual card. I always grab a napkin, t-shirt, back of a menu or other piece of white. Black text makes no difference, so long as the background is white. If you choose a bluish piece of paper (like a glossy printed piece), your results will be warmer (more orange), and if you use a more orange piece of paper (like a cheap paper napkin), your results will be more blue.

Avoid gray items, since they are very rarely neutral, even if they look gray.

To set your white balance to something white:

1.) Ensure your card or other neutral object is in the same sort of light as your subject. Changing the angle of the object often will favor one kind of a light or another in mixed light, which will greatly affect your result.

2.) Hold WB and spin the rear dial to get to PRE.

3.) Release WB.

4.) Press and hold WB again for a few seconds.

5.) PRE starts to blink.

6.) Release the WB button.

7.) Point your D90 at the card and press the shutter.

8.) If the display flashes "gd" (good) you're all set.

9.) If the display flashes "ng" then repeat from step 4.)

The D90 stores this as value d-0. You can save five different values using the menus, numbered d-0 through d-4. d-0 is always the value you just saved. You can recall the other saved values by holding WB and spinning the front knob. Thank God you can recall them without menus. The menus (explained later) are only for storing, sorting and managing these.

I have mine set to 1.) indoors under crummy residential light, 2.) the screen of my laptop computer, 3.) mercury street lights and 4.) a cloudy day. I'm sure you will be more inventive.

[villainmack]

ok thx, but I know how to set manual white ballance, I dont know how to clear all presets

[chris-p]

Originally Posted by villainmack

ok thx, but I know how to set manual white ballance, I dont know how to clear all presets

As I said before - you can't. You can overwrite whats already there buy you can't clear them.