Sony DXC-D55 Series Brochure & Specs page 5

Adaptive Highlight Control
The DXC-D55 Series offers outstanding
over-exposure control by
multiple knee-points/slopes to handle
highlight areas in a progressive manner.
By analysing the highlight areas of a
scene, the camera automatically sets and
optimises multiple knee points/slopes
accordingly. This enables the reproduction
of extremely difficult scenes (for example,
an interior scene with a bright illuminant
such as sunlight in the background) with
much more over-exposure latitude. The
adaptive highlight control applies only to
input video level in excess of the knee
point; the middle and low-luminance parts
of the video signal are unaffected by this
control.
Low Key Saturation
With conventional cameras, low-light
areas can be subject to reduced satura-
tion, resulting in the colour in these areas
being lost. The low-key saturation function
incorporated in the DXC-D55 Series helps
eliminate this problem by optimising the
amplification of colour saturation at low
light levels, providing more natural colour
reproduction.
Skin-Tone Detail Control
The skin-tone detail control function in the
DXC-D55 Series allows softening of the
skin-tone detail in the facial area, while
maintaining the sharpness of other parts
of the picture. The skin-tone detail area
can be selected simply and quickly, using
an area-detect cursor in the viewfinder
screen. The colour range for skin-tone
detail, and the skin-detail level, can also
be selected manually, using the viewfinder
menu system.
applying
Adaptive Highlight Control Off
Low Key Saturation Off
Skin-Tone Detail Control Off
Knee Curve Image
White Clip
Auto Slope
Output Signal Level
Adaptive Highlight Control On
Knee point n
Knee point 3
Knee point 2
Knee point 1
Knee point 0
Low Key Saturation On
Skin-Tone Detail Control On