Image Adjustment

Vignette Control

The Vignette Control palette is used to correct for loss of marginal lumination, a phenomenon associated with camera lenses that causes a drop in brightness at the edges of a photograph. Vignette Control is most effective when performed on images taken at maximum aperture. If the picture in the active image window is a RAW image taken with a lens equipped to trans- mit distance information (i.e., a type G or D lens) mounted on a camera that can record this information, Nikon Capture 4 will use the lens information recorded with the image to auto- matically select an optimal value for Vignette Control. Where lens information is not available, Vignette Control will be based on default lens characteristics. To determine whether a given combination of lens and camera will record distance information, see the table below.

Camera

Type G or D lens

Other lens

D2 series, D200, D100, D70s, D70, D50

Recorded

Not recorded

D1X/D1H (firmware version 1.10 or later)

Recorded

Not recorded

D1X/D1H (firmware version 1.01 or earlier)

Not recorded

Not recorded

D1

Not recorded

Not recorded

To use Vignette Control:

1 Display the Vignette Control palette

Select the tool palette containing the Vignette Control palette from the View menu (the default location for the Vignette Control palette is Tool Palette 2) and click the triangle at the top left corner of the palette.

Apply

 

 

 

Settings

 

 

button

 

menu

2 Turn the Apply button on ()

Turn the Apply button on ( ) to enable Vignette control.

3 Adjust intensity

Vignette control can be performed manually by dragging the Intensity slider or entering a value in the text box to its right. Choose a value between –100 and +200 according to the drop in marginal lumination exhibited by the lens in use. The default value is 80; if 0 is selected, no vignette control will be performed.

Vignette Control

The controls in the Vignette Control palette are only available if the image in the active window is a RAW (NEF) photograph taken with a D2-series, D1-series, D200, D100, D70s, D70, or D50 camera. If the image is JPEG or TIFF, the Apply button in the Vignette Control palette will be grayed out and inactive. Vignette control can not be used to correct vignetting caused by PC Nikkor lenses or Speedlight photography.

Where Distance Information Is Not Available

Vignette Control for photographs taken with lenses or cameras that do not support distance information is based on default lens characteristics. Care may be required to prevent over-correction.

Neutral.set

At factory defaults (the default settings stored in the file “Neutral.set”), the Apply button is off ( ) and Intensity is set to 80.

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