Nikon Picture Control System.pdf

Nikon Picture Control System

STANDARD

NEUTRAL

VIVID

MONOCHROME

PORTRAIT

LANDSCAPE

Create Images Exactly as You Imagine Them

A simple, effective image creation system that enables you

to lexibly control a wide range of shooting situations and

achieve your particular preferences.

Naturally, you seek to create images that achieve your own

desired characteristics — images that project your own

particular style.

It’s a feeling shared by everyone who loves photographs and

loves taking them, professional and amateur alike. With digital

cameras, you’re able to control image characteristics such as

tone, hue, and contrast — and do so relatively easily. In turn,

this leads to an ever-growing penchant to create exactly the sort

of images you want, whether you’re a professional or amateur.

Picture Control System, Nikon’s all-new original system of

image creation settings, allows you to do precisely that. Now,

photographers at all levels, from novices to professionals, can easily

select and adjust Picture Control by simply using the screen settings

on their digital SLR cameras.

By utilizing the same Picture Control settings, users of Picture

Control System-compatible cameras * are able to shoot images with

virtually the same sharpening, contrast, brightness, saturation, and

hue, even with different camera models.

* D3X, D3S, D3, D700, D300S, D300, D7000, D90, D5000, D3100 and D3000, as

of December 1, 2010.

CONTENTS

Outline/Main Features

P. 2

Picture Control Adjustments

P. 10

Features of Basic Nikon Picture Controls

Standard

Custom Picture Controls and Optional Picture Controls

P. 18

P. 4

Collaborative Applications

P. 19

Neutral

P. 5

Display Calibration/Color Management of Printer

P. 22

Vivid

P. 6

Guidelines for Settings that Approximate Picture Controls

P. 23

Monochrome

P. 7

Portrait

P. 8

Landscape

P. 9

Main Features of the Picture Control System

Six Kinds of Picture Controls

Nikon Picture Control System-compatible cameras feature six types of

Picture Control: Standard, Neutral, Vivid, Monochrome, Portrait* 1 and

Landscape* 1 . Using them allows you to lexibly adjust for Sharpening,

Contrast, Brightness and much more.* 2

*1 Available as Optional Picture Controls for the D3X, D3S, D3, D700, D300S and D300

*2 Standard/Neutral/Vivid/Portrait/Landscape: Sharpening, Contrast, Brightness,

Saturation and Hue (coloration)

Monochrome: Sharpening, Contrast, Brightness, Filter Effects and Toning

Custom Picture Controls

Allow you to designate Nikon Picture Controls to which you’ve made

adjustments and register them as custom Picture Controls. What’s

more, you can input and register custom Picture Controls created on

another camera or computer by reading them from a memory card.

Optional Picture Controls

Optional Picture Controls Portrait (for natural-looking images with a real

sense of depth and for smooth reproduction of skin tone) and Landscape

(for lively natural scenes and vibrant city streets), both pre-installed in

the D7000, D90, D5000, D3100 and D3000, can be downloaded from

Nikon's website for installation in the D3X, D3S, D3, D700, D300S and

D300.

The ViewNX 2* 1 software included with the camera and the optional

software Capture NX 2* 2 feature D2X/D2XS Optional Picture Control,

which enables you to apply color reproduction approximating that of

the D2X and D2XS. You can download the D2X/D2XS Optional Picture

Control from Nikon's website and install it in the D3X, D3, D700, and

D300. The pre-installed Picture Controls and the Optional Picture

Controls are known collectively as Nikon Picture Controls.

*1 The latest version of ViewNX 2 can be downloaded from Nikon’s website.

*2 Users of Capture NX 2 can download the latest version from Nikon’s website.

Quick Adjust

With the Standard and Vivid controls, Quick Adjust makes it easy

to achieve well-balanced adjustments. You can make ive levels of

modiication, with Sharpening, Contrast, and Saturation all adjusted

automatically. Plus, after using Quick Adjust, you can carry out iner,

more detailed modiications to each item to suit your particular

preferences and get the exact results you require.

To ensure optimum clarity, all pictures appearing in this brochure were taken with the

Nikon D3X, D3S, D700, D300S or D90, at [Standard] Picture Control setting, and the

resulting images were processed on a computer using Picture Control.

Using one of these cameras and the same settings, you should be able to obtain similar

results.

Picture Control Grid

Picture Controls can be displayed as coordinates on a grid, based on

the common Picture Controls standard, with Contrast as the vertical

axis and Saturation as the horizontal axis*. This enables you to visually

determine the relationships between your selected Picture Control and

other Picture Controls.

*In Monochrome, only Contrast is shown.

Brightness Adjustment

Enables you to not only adjust the brightness of an image, but also

the gradations and richness of highlighted and shadowy areas within

that image. This exceptional depiction of gradations is unique to Nikon

digital SLR cameras.

Nikon Picture Controls

Picture Control Settings

Choose [Set Picture Control] from the shooting menu

and a list appears.

Select your desired Picture Control type and press “OK”.

STANDARD

Gives you standard, balanced images with no inconsistencies in the strength of the subject’s sharpening,

contrast, brightness, saturation and coloration. Before you know it, you’ll be taking shots with vibrant

colors that linger in the viewer’s memory. Moreover, you’ll be able to print out images that display an

attractive inish, with no need for special processing.

Suitable for portraits, snapshots, landscape pictures and just about anything else.

D3 monitor.

You can also select settings from the grid display

that show the relation between your selected Picture

Control and other Picture Controls. Simply press “OK”.

D3 monitor.

• Camera: D3S • Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 600mm f/4G ED VR • Image quality: 14-bit RAW (NEF) • Exposure: [M] mode, 1/2000 second, f/4

• White balance: Auto • Sensitivity: ISO 3200

• Camera: D3S • Lens: AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED • Image quality: 14-bit RAW (NEF) • Exposure: [M] mode, 1/1250 second, f/4.5 • White balance: Auto • Sensitivity: ISO 640

NEUTRAL

Delivers images that are closest to the actual original scene. To reproduce the subject’s unique

colors and gradations with maximum authenticity, avoid extreme enhancements. Compared to

Standard, Neutral gives a more soothing overall impression. It’s also ideal for materials that you plan

to adjust after shooting to express a speciic idea.

Neutral

Standard

• Camera: D3S • Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED • Image quality: 14-bit, lossless-compressed RAW (NEF) • Exposure: [A] mode, 1/125 second, f/16 • White balance: Auto • Sensitivity: ISO 200

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