Hue Parameter - Nikon D300 Complete Manual

As with anything in digital, adding contrast after the fact to an
image is easier than taking it out. Indeed, Nikon provides
such a high contrast capability that you might not be able to
recover highlight and deep shadow detail in post processing.
On the other hand, the low contrast choices provide plenty of
room to move contrast around in post processing. My advice:
error on the low contrast side.

Hue Parameter

This control adjusts the relative intensity of the red, green, and
blue values recorded for pixels. You can use this control to
select increments of ±3° in color change, up to a total of ±9°.
(Nikon has now gotten away from using degrees, and simply
uses a generic + and – scale. However the increments on that
scale still represent about the same Hue adjustment range
we've had before—each increment is about 3°.) Graphic
artists will recognize this as being a deviation value on a
standard color wheel (R, G, and B being 120° apart in the
wheel). Just as a reminder, the basic orientation of the color
wheel looks like this:
Thom Hogan's Complete Guide to the Nikon D300
+3 Contrast. Nikon's
given you plenty of
rope to hang yourself
with. Note how
cranking the contrast all
the way up results in a
vivid presentation.
-3 Contrast. At the
other extreme, you can
wash out your image
quite a bit, which better
holds shadow and
highlight detail within
the usable bits.
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