Nikon D80KIT, D80OUTFIT Taking Pictures in Black-and-White: Black-and-White, Image Quality (All Modes), Image Size (All Modes), Large, Small, Normal, Custom, Custom, Medium

Taking Pictures in Black-and-White: Black-and-White

Selecting Black-and-whitefor Optimize image displays the menu shown at right. Choose Normal to take standard black-and-white pic- tures, or Custom to adjust sharpening and tone compensation before shooting as described in on page 80. Custom also supports the following color filter effects:

Filter effect	Description
Off	No color filter effect.
Yellow	Enhances contrast. Can be used to tone down the brightness of the sky in land-
Orange	scape photographs. Orange produces more contrast than yellow, red more contrast
Red	than orange.
Green	Softens skin tones. Can be used for portraits.

Black-and-white indicators appear in the control panel and viewfinder when Black-and- white is selected for Optimize image (5–7).

Image Quality (All Modes)

Seven options are available for image quality. See “Reference: Image Quality and Size” ( 33).

Image Size (All Modes)

Image size can be selected from Large, Medium, and Small. See “Ref- erence: Image Quality and Size” (33).

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