Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu

Shooting in Black-and-White: [Black-and-White]

When [Black-and-white] is selected, the options described below are available.

Choose [Standard] to shoot in basic black-and-white, or [Custom] to manually adjust contrast, sharpening, and 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].

Black-and-white

Standard

Custom

B&W + color

Exit

Contrast

Same as [Optimize image] > [Custom] > [Contrast] (A95).

Image sharpening

Same as [Optimize image] > [Custom] > [Image sharpening] (A95).

Shooting, Playback and Setup Menus

Monochrome filter

This effect simulates black-and-white photography with a color filter.

[Yellow], [Orange], [Red]

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

[Green]

Softens skin tones. Suitable for portraits.

Monochrome filter

y k None

Yellow

Orange

Red

Green

Exit

DB&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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Nortel Networks P5100 Shooting in Black-and-White Black-and-White, Following options can be adjusted in Custom, W + Color