Sony Alpha 3000 review – White balance and colour
Image: Creative styles can be changed to allow high-contrast black & white images, as well as a wide range of other styles
All the expected white balance settings are available on the Alpha 3000, including AWB, daylight, shade, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent, flash, custom and a mode that allows the user to manually change the settings to between 2,500K and 9,900K. This manual setting is great for tweaking and previewing the change in white balance using live view, although I found that much like the NEX series of cameras, the AWB setting does a good job in most situations.
A variety of creative styles can be selected in the brightness/colour menu, including vivid, portrait, landscape, black & white and standard. The sharpness, contrast and saturation can be adjusted by the user ±3. Tweaking these settings creatively often yields good results.
Image: As the Sony Alpha 3000 features full manual controls, it allows a lot of creative freedom
