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206 The “Recording” (Camera icon) Menu Settings

So if you’ve never used your picture effects before, and you want to have a
little more fun with your camera, dig into this feature and try shooting
different subjects to see what works best.

So what do they do? Well, you get the ability to capture only selective
colors; to make striking high-contrast B&W images; to make the image
look old/faded; or even make your picture look like it was taken with a
1960’s era plastic toy camera. These effects apply when you’re shooting
movies, too!

To help provide a meaningful technical explanation for what these settings
really do, I’ve photographed one colorful test subject using a variety of
settings. Afterwards I’ll show you other subject matter more suited to each
effect, and then I’ll compare some of these effects to the camera’s other
effects – the Creative Styles (described in the previous section).

For fun, reader Kathi Horste put together this fun little video showing off
the various Picture Effects (plus how it looks in movie mode – quite cool!):
http://tinyurl.com/3ejuapo . (Thanks, Kathi!)

Toy Camera – Designed to
Reference Photo - Pop Color - Saturated
emulate the toy plastic
Program Mode using colors – similar to the
cameras of the 1960’s.
“Standard” creative Style. “Vivid” Creative Style.
Introduces some
vignetteing in the corners,
bumps up the colors a
little and provides one of

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