Just got my S50 for 3 days, everything fine except the indoor photography, the white balance for indoor is poor. there is a setting under white balance menu: Hold, it should be the setting manually but nothing comes from the user manual. Anyone there can help me with this setting:Hold? thanks.

-- mars chen (marschen@attglobal.net), June 12, 2000

Answers

I believe it is a manual white balance that will be remembered. You should point the camera at a white piece of paper, manually white balance while the selection is on "Hold" and that particular setting will be remembered whenever it is set for "Hold".
You can always set it again - and the new one is what will be remembered.

Des

-- Dan Desjardins (dan.desjardins@avstarnews.com), June 12, 2000.

Dan:

Thanks for reply. I tried but makes no progress. The way you stated is for F505 since there is a ONE-PUSH button to set white balance using a white surface as a reference. I do not know the correct way to turn on the setting or is it the correct way to use it?

Here is the what it says about HOLD on the manual (page 43, S50): HOLD Recording a single-colored subject or background.

Hope someone can strike out from the statement.

-- mars chen (marschen@attglobal.net), June 14, 2000.

Mars

There are 4 options in the setting, Indoor, Outdoor, Auto and Hold. When you choose Hold and press OK or ON, then the time you press the s70 will record the scence for reference. This mean before going into restaurant, you get a white paper before the camera and press Hold option in white balance, then even you are inside the restaurant, the camera has the previous reference. Hope you have some idea.

Chris

-- Chris Ho (chrisho@eclasia.com), June 15, 2000.