Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu

Shooting in Black-and-White: Black-and-white

 

When Black-and-whiteis selected, the options

 

 

 

Black-and-white

described below are available.

 

 

Standard

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

 

Custom

 

Choose Custom to manually adjust Contrast,

 

 

B&W + color

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 (A112).

Image sharpening

Same as Optimize image Custom Image sharpening (A112).

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

None

Yellow

Orange

Red

Green

Shooting, Playback and Setup Menus

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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Optima Batteries P90 Shooting in Black-and-White Black-and-white, 113, Image sharpening , and Monochrome filter, W + Color