Nikon COOLPIXSP500BLK, COOLPIXP500BK user manual Black-and-White in Optimize Image, W + Color

Black-and-white

Standard

Custom

B&W + color

Shooting Options: Shooting Menu (j, k, l, m Modes)

Black-and-White in Optimize Image

When Black-and-whiteis selected, the options described below are available.

• Choose Standard to shoot in basic black-and-white.

• Choose Custom to manually adjust Contrast, Image sharpening, and Monochrome filter effects.

•When the B&W + color option is enabled (w), one black-and-white picture and the same picture in full color are recorded simultaneously.

The following options can be adjusted in Custom.

Contrast

Same as Optimize image ➝ Custom ➝ Contrast (A88).

Image sharpening

Same as Optimize image ➝ Custom ➝ Image sharpening (A88).

Monochrome filter

This effect simulates black-and-white photography

Monochrome filter

with a color filter.

None

• Yellow, Orange, Red:	Yellow
Enhance contrast. Can be used to tone down the	Orange
	Red
brightness of the sky in landscape photographs.
	Green
Orange filter results in greater contrast than yellow	Sepia
filter, and red filter greater contrast than orange
filter.

•Green:

Softens skin tones. Suitable for portraits.

•Sepia:

Adds a sepia color tone to make it look like an old picture.

CB&W + Color

Color pictures recorded when B&W + color is enabled are the same as those shot at an optimize image setting of Normal.

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