Chapter 3; How Photo Styles Change Image Quality; About Photo Styles - Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200 User Manual

How Photo Styles Change Image Quality

About photo styles

The photo styles appear as the very first menu item when you enter the
REC Setup menu in any of the semi-automatic or manual exposure
modes.
These offer the user a way of "fine tuning" the way in which the camera
processes the image from the sensor and saves it as the JPEG image
file on your memory card.
There are 6 photo styles available, plus the option to save a "custom
profile" made from any of the other 6 profiles:
Standard
Vivid
Natural
Monochrome
Scenery
Portrait
With each of the photo styles there are 4 parameters which are user
definable:
Contrast
Sharpness
Saturation
Noise reduction
Each of these parameters can be set to one of 5 values from -2 to +2
This gives the user some 6x4x5x5x5x5 = 15000 options!
Do we need them all?
The use of photo styles really comes down to the question of what the
purpose of the final image recorded on your memory card is going to be
used for.

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