Nikon D80 - Image Quality (All Modes)

81Menu Guide / Shooting Options: The Shooting Menu
Taking Pictures in Black-and-White: Black-and-White
Selecting Black-and-white for Optimize image displays the menu
shown at right. Choose Normal to take standard black-and-white pic-
tures, or Custom to adjust sharpening and tone compensation before
shooting as described in on page 80. Custom also supports the follow-
ing color fi lter eff ects:
Filter e ect Description
O No color fi lter eff ect.
Yellow
Enhances contrast. Can be used to tone down the brightness of the sky in land-
scape photographs. Orange produces more contrast than yellow, red more contrast
than orange.
Orange
Red
Green Softens skin tones. Can be used for portraits.
Black-and-white indicators appear in the control panel and viewfi nder when Black-and-
white is selected for Optimize image ( 5–7).
Image Quality (All Modes)
Seven options are available for image quality. See “Reference: Image
Quality and Size” ( 33).
Image Size (All Modes)
Image size can be selected from Large, Medium, and Small. See “Ref-
erence: Image Quality and Size” ( 33).