Active D-Lighting

“Active D-Lighting” preserves details in highlights and shadows, creating photographs with natural contrast. Use for high contrast scenes, for example when photographing brightly lit outdoor scenery through a door or window or taking pictures of shaded subjects on a sunny day. This can be used when A, B, C, D, E or Fis selected for shooting mode, and Fine, Normal or Basic is selected for Image quality (A124).

To use Active D-Lighting

1 Rotate the mode dial to A, B, Cor D.

• Can be set even if Eor Fis selected.

2 Press the dbutton to display the shooting menu screen, choose Active D-Lightingwith the multi selector and press the kbutton.

Shooting menu

Flash control

Noise reduction

Distortion control

Wide-angle converter

Active D-Lighting

Save user settings

,Ausing pictures Shoot

3 Choose the extent of the setting, and press the

kbutton.

•Choose from three levels, High, Normal, or Low.

•The setting for Active D-Lighting can be previewed in the monitor during shooting (nothing will be displayed if Off is selected) (A8).

BNotes on Active D-Lighting

Active D-Lighting

High

Normal

Low

Off

Dand C,B

•Additional time is required to record images when Active D-Lighting is on.

•Although exposure is in fact reduced to prevent loss of detail in highlights and shadows, highlights, underexposed areas, and mid-tones are automatically adjusted to prevent the resulting photograph from being underexposed.

•Set Metering (A139) to Matrix when shooting with Active D-Lighting.

•This cannot be adjusted together with the Contrast setting of COOLPIX Picture Control (A129).

•When ISO sensitivity (A138) is set to High ISO sensitivity auto or a setting higher than 1600, Active D-Lighting will not function.

BActive D-Lighting Versus D-Lighting

The Active D-Lightingoption in the shooting menu adjusts exposure before shooting to optimize the dynamic range, while the D-Lighting(A68) option in the playback menu optimizes dynamic

range in images after shooting.

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