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discuss Active D-Lighting in an upcoming section of this
chapter. If you want to modify a Picture Control’s
Sharpening, Contrast, or Brightness settings, you’ll need to
set Active D-Lighting to Off. You can modify Saturation or
Hue at any time.
Now, let’s look closer at the Picture Control system. As
shown in Figure 3-19, image 2, there are a series of Picture
Control selections that modify how your D300(S) captures an
image:
▪ SD, or Standard
▪ NL, or Neutral
▪ VI, or Vivid
▪ MC, or Monochrome
Each of these settings has a different and variable
combination of the following settings:
▪ Sharpening
▪ Contrast
▪ Brightness
▪ Saturation
▪ Hue
▪ Filter effects (MC only)
▪ Toning (MC only)
You can select one of the controls (SD, NL, VI, or MC) and
leave the settings as they are set at the factory, or you can
modify the settings (see Figure 3-19, image 3) and completely
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