Need some advise. About D300.

[Yatuzaa]

Im currently using D300 and I just want to know about the set picture control options, there's 4 options, Standard, Neutral*, vivid* and Monochrome*. Im really curious whether I shud be using Standard, Neutral or Vivid. Which is the best options for a daily shooting and do other D300 user change those settings or its up to individual? I've been using Vivid and I find the colour are sharp and the saturation are high. So I just need some advise on when to use each options. Thankz.

[David Kwok]

Originally Posted by Yatuzaa Im currently using D300 and I just want to know about the set picture control options, there's 4 options, Standard, Neutral*, vivid* and Monochrome*. Im really curious whether I shud be using Standard, Neutral or Vivid. Which is the best options for a daily shooting and do other D300 user change those settings or its up to individual? I've been using Vivid and I find the colour are sharp and the saturation are high. So I just need some advise on when to use each options. Thankz.

Vivid are good for scenes that you need high contrast and saturated colours. normally I use it for scene that I wanted to boost the colours because are the main selling point of the pic. Landscape can also use vivid at times.

If you are doing RAW, these controls doesn't mean alot, becuase you can also tweak it when you are doing RAW conversion. In fact these controls are just advisory, at the end of the day, which RAW converter you are using significantly affect the colours.

If you are doing JPEG, then these controls are important, because they form the colours in the JPEG which still can be changed, but not as flexible as RAW.

For events or portrait or general purpose, I tend to use Neutral, then tweak abit by up the sharpness only.

[jessejames]

i use neutral and increase the sharpness by 2 pts
alternatively, if you check out the nikon site and do a search, you can actually download other picture controls eg. landscape, portrait etc.. these are sometimes useful esp for jpeg.. from there you can also customise the sharpness

hope that helps

[Yatuzaa]

Thankz Alot guyz. It really help me alot. Gonna see the differences soon.

[lsisaxon]

Originally Posted by Yatuzaa Im currently using D300 and I just want to know about the set picture control options, there's 4 options, Standard, Neutral*, vivid* and Monochrome*. Im really curious whether I shud be using Standard, Neutral or Vivid. Which is the best options for a daily shooting and do other D300 user change those settings or its up to individual? I've been using Vivid and I find the colour are sharp and the saturation are high. So I just need some advise on when to use each options. Thankz.

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[jnet6]

Originally Posted by lsisaxon D o w n l o a d t h e D 2 X M o d e I p i c t u r e c o n t r o l .

That is a very good mode!

[zh3ng]

i feel the D2xMode1 quite desaturated. but its good for skin tones though.

[Nickle]

I use D2X Mode III for normal / walkabout shoots. D2X Mode I for portrait shoots when I need nice skin tones. Vivid for shots where the increased saturation is an important element of the photographs' success.

[lsisaxon]

Originally Posted by Nickle I use D2X Mode III for normal / walkabout shoots. D2X Mode I for portrait shoots when I need nice skin tones. Vivid for shots where the increased saturation is an important element of the photographs' success.

The new Portrait and Landscape picture controls are supposed to supercede D2XModeI and D2XModeIII respectively but I still prefer the tonal gradations and colour of D2XModeI. unfortunately the D2XMode picture controls are not available for D90.

[tanhb]

Hi TS,

An easy way to find out which Picture Control setting you like best is to:

1. Download and install CaptureNX2 trial.
2. Shoot in RAW and then change Picture Control setting in CaptureNX2, see for yourself which settings you like best and for what type of shoot.
3. Use these settings that you like in your future photo shoot.

[geraldkhoo]

Originally Posted by lsisaxon D o w n l o a d t h e D 2 X M o d e I p i c t u r e c o n t r o l .

I've been using D2XMODEI since the time I downloaded and tried it out

[geraldkhoo]

Originally Posted by lsisaxon The new Portrait and Landscape picture controls are supposed to supercede D2XModeI and D2XModeIII respectively but I still prefer the tonal gradations and colour of D2XModeI. unfortunately the D2XMode picture controls are not available for D90.

Can D90 use custom picture controls using .NCP files to import into the camera? If it can, there is a .NCP file called "D300 Mode 1" which is suppose to emulate D2XMODEI.

I think it is from the following link... the PICCON02.NCP file...

http://hkgharry.com/picture_control_files/

[lsisaxon]

Originally Posted by geraldkhoo Can D90 use custom picture controls using .NCP files to import into the camera? If it can, there is a .NCP file called "D300 Mode 1" which is suppose to emulate D2XMODEI. I think it is from the following link... the PICCON02.NCP file... http://hkgharry.com/picture_control_files/

I have tried a couple based on D2XModeI and it refused to load in D90. I think someone else's D90 hang after he tried to load a picture control file based on D2XModeI.

Anyway, I'm using Portrait on D90 and D2XModeI on D300 and I find them quite close. There are some subtle differences but close enough for me.

[geraldkhoo]

Originally Posted by lsisaxon I have tried a couple based on D2XModeI and it refused to load in D90. I think someone else's D90 hang after he tried to load a picture control file based on D2XModeI. Anyway, I'm using Portrait on D90 and D2XModeI on D300 and I find them quite close. There are some subtle differences but close enough for me.

Camera hang... hehe... sounds serious...

I'm thinking theoratically, if we can see the emulated curve, then we sould be able to create a new curve that is the same, and then export to D90.

Anyway... I don't own a D90... else I go try it out

[Yatuzaa]

Thankz Guyz, I did what most of you guyz told me. Thankz again for the tips.