Introduction to the Nikon D300/D700, Vol. 2: Advanced Topics

now let's take a closer look at some of the options on the shooting menu we have already covered image quality and white balance so let's scroll down to set picture control here we can select and customize a picture look for this example i'll choose the predefined vivid setting ok let's explore this a little bit by pressing the right arrow key i can fine tune the tonal properties such as contrast and color saturation the advantage of doing this in the camera is your image will be altered before it's compressed and stored on the memory card you may find this useful if you shoot in jpeg and want to minimize adjustments on the computer later you can save customized picture controls by selecting manage picture controls from the shooting menu choose save edit and then pick an existing picture control to work from make the changes you want and then press ok you will then be able to save the s