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Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu
Shooting, Playback and Setup Menus
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.
D B&W + Color
Color pictures recorded when B&W + color is enabled are the same as those shot at an Optimize
image setting of Normal.
Contrast
Same as Optimize image > Custom > Contrast (A92).
Image sharpening
Same as Optimize image > Custom > Image sharpening (A 92).
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.
Standard
Custom
Black-and-white
Exit
B&W + color
Green
Monochrome filter
Exit
None
Yellow
Orange
Red