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Items

Subitems and setting values

Contents

Skin Tone Detail

Setting

Set to “On” to enable the detail level adjustment for

Adjusting the details to be

On / Off

specific color-phase areas.

applied to the areas of a

 

The detail level is uniform over the entire picture

specific color phase

 

with the Off setting.

 

 

 

 

Level

Adjust the skin-tone detail level.

 

–99 to +99 (±0)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Area Detection1)

Execute to detect the color in the center of the

 

Execute/Cancel

screen. The area centering around the detected

 

 

color becomes the target area for Skin Tone Detail

 

 

control.

 

 

 

 

Area Indication2)

Set to “On” to display the Zebra 1 pattern for the

 

On / Off

target area for Skin Tone Detail control.

 

 

 

 

Saturation

Adjust the color (saturation) level for Skin Tone

 

–99 to +99 (±0)

Detail control.

 

 

 

 

 

Note

 

 

 

When Area Detection is executed, this setting is

 

 

automatically returned to 0.

 

 

 

 

Phase

Adjust the center color-phase value for the target

 

0 to 359 (130)

area for Skin Tone Detail control.

 

 

 

 

 

Note

 

 

 

When Area Detection is executed, this setting is

 

 

automatically changed to the value equivalent to

 

 

that of the detected color.

 

 

 

 

Width

Adjust the width of the color phase of the target

 

0 to 90 (40)

area for Skin Tone Detail control.

 

 

 

 

 

Note

 

 

 

When Area Detection is executed, the Width

 

 

setting automatically returns to 40.

 

 

 

Knee

Setting

Set to “On” to compress the high-luminance area of

Adjusting the knee level

On / Off

the picture.

 

 

 

 

 

Note

 

 

 

Knee is fixed and cannot be changed in the

 

 

following cases:

 

 

• When Gamma is set to CINE1 to 4

 

 

• When the electronic shutter is in SLS mode

 

 

• When EX Slow Shutter is active

 

 

 

 

Auto Knee

Set to “On” to automatically set the best knee

 

On / Off

conditions according to the luminance level of the

 

 

picture.

 

 

With “Off” the knee conditions can be manually

 

 

adjusted independently of the luminance level of

 

 

the picture.

 

 

 

 

Point

Set the knee point when Auto Knee is “Off.”

 

50 to 109 (90)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slope

Set the knee slope (volume of compression) when

 

–99 to +99 (±0)

Auto Knee is “Off.”

 

 

 

 

Knee SAT Level

Adjust the knee saturation level for the area over

 

0 to 99 (50)

the knee point.

 

 

 

 

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Sony PMW-EX3 manual Skin Tone Detail, Knee
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PMW-EX3 specifications

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