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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.
• Choose Custom to manually adjust Contrast,
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.
C 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 (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.
Black-and-white
Standard
Custom
B&W + color
Monochrome filter
None
Yellow
Orange
Red
Green