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Considering an upgrade to Canon G7X – but have a concern about shooting sunsets.

Started Apr 5, 2015 | Discussions thread
Donthuis
Donthuis Regular Member • Posts: 139
Re: Considering an upgrade to Canon G7X – but have a concern about shooting sunsets.

Isn't the camera supposed to select the sunset option in the Auto or hybrid automatic position? A pictogram with an orange background color should come up if the sunset is properly detected.

One would expect in the SCN/scene sunset it to be one of the selectable options, but the manual does not show it. In the mean time I checked the menu in practice: indeed n.a. in SCN mode..

So if you want sunsets automatically set the mode dial to AUTO. If not change the White balance in any of the other modes from Auto to daylight and the red of the sun will remain as it is.

Of course one can go one step further and define a custom white balance value for this situation. But IMO this is overkill, fine-tuning the color of the sunset picture in Lightroom in post is easier!

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Longterm photographer from way back in the 50's via analog SLR's, three generations of video equipment towards present 2 high end compacts both with (F)HD-video included (Canon 300HS & G7X).

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