Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Image Tells Life: Nikon Picture Control System (PCS) Part 1
Image Tells Life: Nikon Picture Control System (PCS) Part 1: "Today, heard some of my colleagues discussing about picture of cxxxx look more interesting and attractive compared to Nikon. I am totally d..."
Monday, March 28, 2011
Nikon Picture Control System (PCS) Part 1
Today, heard some of my colleagues discussing about picture of cxxxx look more interesting and attractive compared to Nikon.
I am totally disagree and in this blog, I would like to explain the basic tuning of the powerful SPC from all Nikon dSLR.
Nikon PCS has total of 6 type of picture controls:- Standard, Neutral, Vivid, Potrair, Landscape and Monochrome. In each PC, you can tune up to 5 parameters:- Sharpnening, Contrast, Brightness, Saturation and Hue.
You know best of what kind of feel of picture to be given to viewer, it affects the viewer's emotion as well.
Look at the grid below to understand what is the default setting for each picture control on the contrast and saturation. You may create up to 9 customize picture control at your own preference.
For example, I took this photo with STANDARD
By choosing VIVID and tune the contrast and saturation by +3, the same picture give total different feel. Seems attractive huh??
Let's look at another example, I took this with STANDARD.
If I chose VIVID and tune the contrast and saturation by +3, here how it looks,
Looks more lively?? But in fact, it losses lot of details!!
The dark area totally blown out! No detail!
Believe it or not? The size for STANDARD is 1.22MB while the VIVID is 1.35MB!! Increases by 10% more!! Which means you actually need more space to get NO/LESSER detail... sigh!
I am totally disagree and in this blog, I would like to explain the basic tuning of the powerful SPC from all Nikon dSLR.
Nikon PCS has total of 6 type of picture controls:- Standard, Neutral, Vivid, Potrair, Landscape and Monochrome. In each PC, you can tune up to 5 parameters:- Sharpnening, Contrast, Brightness, Saturation and Hue.
You know best of what kind of feel of picture to be given to viewer, it affects the viewer's emotion as well.
Look at the grid below to understand what is the default setting for each picture control on the contrast and saturation. You may create up to 9 customize picture control at your own preference.
For example, I took this photo with STANDARD
By choosing VIVID and tune the contrast and saturation by +3, the same picture give total different feel. Seems attractive huh??
Let's look at another example, I took this with STANDARD.
 |
| STANDARD |
If I chose VIVID and tune the contrast and saturation by +3, here how it looks,
 | ||
| VIVID, Contract & Saturation +3 |
Looks more lively?? But in fact, it losses lot of details!!
 |
| STANDARD |
 |
| VIVID |
Believe it or not? The size for STANDARD is 1.22MB while the VIVID is 1.35MB!! Increases by 10% more!! Which means you actually need more space to get NO/LESSER detail... sigh!
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Visit to Nikon PJ
Amy and I paid a visit to Nikon PJ to fine tune the AF assembly. From my previous post, my D7k had a back-focus issue and now solved!!
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Nikon D7000 continuous burst (6fps) with SB-700
Tonight, decided to put D7000 for highest continuous burst with SB-700. It is useful if I want to shoot actions in low light situation.
I set the image quality to fine and basic. While the shooting mode is continuous high (CH). This video, i recorded with my compact camera (Olympus u1030), the burst captured 20 pics! I believe it can go up to 30 frames (or more) before slowing down.
I am yet to test out the autofocus capability in real scene. Looking forward with it!!
I set the image quality to fine and basic. While the shooting mode is continuous high (CH). This video, i recorded with my compact camera (Olympus u1030), the burst captured 20 pics! I believe it can go up to 30 frames (or more) before slowing down.
I am yet to test out the autofocus capability in real scene. Looking forward with it!!
Nikon D7000 continuous burst with SB-700 from Chan Kien Wing on Vimeo.
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