Question:
Why do all my pictures come out with a blue tint?
Celine
2010-06-22 15:07:00 UTC
I have an older Olympus Digital SLR. When I use it, all modes except portrait come out with blue tint. I have tried to make adjustments with aperture and shutter with no success. Is there a problem with this camera?
Five answers:
cedykeman1
2010-06-22 15:48:07 UTC
As the others have said it's the white balance, I bet that when you take a picture inside a building that has the old style filament light bulbs, the ones that get real hot, the pictures come out just fine.



The old style light bulbs have a filament in them that is made out of the metal tungsten. Electricity courses through this element and it glows, giving off light. This light has a yellow-orange color to it, you may not be able to see this color, as our eyes tend to make things white, but cameras can see this color.



Now the camera can correct for this yellow-orange color by putting a little bit of blue on the pictures. The blue light neutralizes this yellow-orange light. This is why your pictures are blue. It's because the camera thinks it is taking pictures in a room with tungsten light bulbs, but your not.



Your camera is set for tungsten light, you need to find the adjustment on the camera that changes the white balance and change its setting based on what kind of light your shooting in. Outdoors will probably have a sun type of icon. Inside tungsten light will probably have a light bulb icon, shooting in cloudy weather will have clouds, and flouresent bulbs will have some kind of icon too. There are others too.



Remember to change the white balance every time you change from one light source to another. There are other things you can do too, but it's all advanced stuff, you'll learn as you get better.
Eric Lefebvre
2010-06-24 15:58:51 UTC
You have your white balance set to Flash.



Light from various sources is different color.



Incandescent bulbs have a "warm" yellowish light.

Fluorescents have a "cool" blueish light.

Sunlight is considered balanced.



Light color is referenced to by it's "temperature" a typical 60W Incandescent is at 2700K for example.



To fix this, set your cameras white balance for the type of lighting that is predominant in the area you are in. Shooting in RAW format, if available to you, will allow you to fix things like white balance on the computer.
djbigrodney
2015-03-29 16:38:27 UTC
Change your white balance to Auto, take a few shots, then try using the other lighting icons to your liking. I always start off with Auto, most times I do not have to change settings.
Picture Taker
2010-06-22 15:10:44 UTC
See this series: http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfeinstein/tags/whitebalancedemo/



Yuo are probably not ready for the first four, but read the captions under all the rest and you will understand what is going on and how to fix it.
dont call me betty
2010-06-22 15:09:16 UTC
the problem is the user,



look up in the manual "setting white balance"


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