Sony DXC-D50 Brochure & Specs page 5

Low Key Saturation
With traditional cameras, low-light areas can be
subject to reduced saturation, resulting in the color in
these areas being "washed-out". The Low Key
Saturation function on the DXC-D50 Series helps
eliminate this problem by optimizing the amplification
of color saturation at low light levels, providing more
natural color reproduction.
Cross-Color Suppression Low Key Saturation Off Low Key Saturation On
Separating the luminance and chrominance
components of a composite signal can be a difficult
task, even with the most advanced comb-filtering
techniques. In order to keep cross color and cross
luminance to a minimum, the DXC-D50 Series virtually
eliminates frequency components that may result in
such artifacts being generated prior to the signal
output. These frequency components are virtually
Cross Color Suppression Off Cross Color Suppression On
eliminated from the Y/R-Y/B-Y signals within the
camera head through sophisticated digital three-line
(NTSC)/five-line (PAL) comb filtering, resulting in a
great reduction of the cross color and dot crawl
normally seen on picture monitors fed with a
composite video signal.
Skin-Tone Detail Control
The Skin-Tone Detail function on the
DXC-D50/D50WS allows softer detail correction to be
applied 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 the Area-Detect Cursor in the viewfinder
screen. The color range for the Skin-Tone Detail (and
skin detail level) can also be selected manually using
the viewfinder menu system.
Skin-Tone Detail Control Off Skin-Tone Detail Control On
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