EOS 6D Warning Icon on Viewfinder Screen

[Rizzo]

I have a Canon 6D. I noticed that on the bottom left of the viewfinder screen there is a warning icon ("!") next to a battery icon. Am I correct in assuming that this is simply a reminder to keep an eye on the battery charge periodically?

Thank you so much.

[stevet1 · Accepted solution]

Rizzo,

The exclamation point warning icon  (!) can appear for a number of reasons.They could include:

• If monochrome is set
• If the White Balance Correction is set
• If Multi-shot noise reduction is set

Check your manual and see what it says about warning icons.

Steve Thomas

[jrhoffman75]

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@Rizzo wrote:

I have a Canon 6D. I noticed that on the bottom left of the viewfinder screen there is a warning icon ("!") next to a battery icon. Am I correct in assuming that this is simply a reminder to keep an eye on the battery charge periodically?

Thank you so much.

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As Steve says it could mean a number of different things. It is selected in the one of the red Shooting menus (or can be disabled).

[Rizzo]

Thank you so much!

[Rizzo]

As a follow-up question...if White Balance Correction is set as a custom function, what exactly does that do?

[stevet1]

Rizzo,

If you want to emphasize the cooler temperatures of blues and yellows in your photo, you would choose a Preset White Balance of Daylight, or a lower Kelvin temperature in the 5200K range. This is good for early morning when the air is crisp and clean, and the sky is a deep blue.

If you want to emphasize the warmer colors like your reds or greens, you would choose a Preset like the Cloudy White Balance in your camera, or a Kelvin setting in the 6000K+ range. This is good for sunsets, or if you are in a Cloudy condition, and you want to bring out the warmer skin tones of a person's face.

The White Balance Correction setting allows you to skew or fine tune those settings to more green, or more magenta, or more blue, etc. It's a fine-tuning kind of process.

I personally do most of my shooting at 5300K, while adjusting at various times for Cloudy conditions, or I'm indoors shooting under tungsten lighting.

You try to adjust your White Balance for the lighting conditions you are in.

Steve Thomas

[shadowsports]

Greetings,

Under varying light conditions, when you take a picture of a white object or background, the white portion can appear cooler (blue) or warmer (red) depending on lighting and settings. In order for colors to be rendered accurately, the camera needs to know what is true white.  If the camera does not interpret white balance correctly, the other colors in your photo my appear duller or more vibrant.  Custom white balance allows you to correct this by telling the camera "this is truly white".

The below article from Canon Europe may be helpful.   

https://www.canon-europe.com/pro/infobank/white-balance/#:~:text=White%20balance%20bracketing&text=T....

[Rizzo]

Steve: Thank you for the thorough response. By shooting in RAW & with the improvements in post-processing software (e.g. Lightroom), in most situations I am not particularly concerned about WB while shooting. Nevertheless I am a proponent of relying on the basics of image capture rather than shooting "blindly" and, thus, trying to make corrections in post-processing.

[Rizzo]

Rick: Thank you for the reference article.