Picture Style Selection

Picture Style Characteristics

• [] Auto

  The color tone will be adjusted automatically to suit the scene. The colors will look vivid for blue skies, greenery and sunsets, particularly in nature, outdoor, and sunset scenes.

  Note

  • If the desired color tone is not obtained with [Auto], use another Picture Style.

• [] Standard

  The image looks vivid, sharp, and crisp. Suitable for most scenes.

• [] Portrait

  For nice skin tones. The image looks softer. Suited for close-up portraits.

  Skin tone can be adjusted by changing [Color tone] as described in Settings and Effects.

• [] Landscape

  For vivid blues and greens, and very sharp and crisp images. Effective for impressive landscapes.

• [] Fine Detail

  For detailed rendering of fine subject contours and subtle textures. The colors will be slightly vivid.

• [] Neutral

  Suited for processing the image with a computer. For natural colors and subdued images with modest brightness and color saturation.

• [] Faithful

  Suited for processing the image with a computer. The color of a subject that is captured in sunlight at a color temperature of 5200K will be adjusted to match the subject's colorimetrical color. For subdued images with modest brightness and color saturation.

• [] Monochrome

  Creates black-and-white images.

  Caution

  • Color images cannot be recovered from JPEG images shot with the [Monochrome] Picture Style.

  Note

  • You can also set the camera to display in the viewfinder for when [Monochrome] is set ().

• [] User Def. 1–3

  You can register a basic style such as [Portrait], [Landscape], a Picture Style file, etc. and adjust it as desired (). With any User Defined Picture Style that has not yet been registered, pictures will be taken with the same characteristics settings as with the default settings of [Auto].