How to set PIcture Control on a Nikon D5100 You found a Camera Guides video, brought to you by Stockoto Inc. Camera Guides, creates quick video tutorials to. The built-in preset Picture Controls in current Nikon DSLRs are: Standard, Neutral, Vivid, Monochrome, Portrait, Landscape and Flat. You get all of these on Nikon’s mirrorless Z system cameras and an additional batch of 20 Creative Picture Controls added. The selector for Picture Controls is found in the shooting menu on the camera.
The Nikon Picture Control system features a variety of Picture Control options: Standard, Neutral, Vivid, Monochrome, Portrait* and Landscape*. Using them allows you to adjust for a variety of parameters. Standard, Neutral, Vivid, Portrait and Landscape allow for adjustments to sharpening, contrast, brightness, saturation, and hue (coloration). Monochrome allows for adjustments to sharpening, contrast, brightness, filter effects and toning.
(* Available as Optional Picture Controls for specific Nikon D-SLRs.)
Nikon Picture Control Profiles
Many photographers think of Picture Controls as the way to personalize their digital images like they did in the film days by using different film emulsions when they were looking for a specific look that one film offered over another.
1 Select a Picture Control. Highlight a Picture Control in the Picture Control list and press 2. 2 Adjust settings. Press 1 or 3 to highlight set-tings and press 4 or 2 to ad-just. Repeat until all settings have been adjusted, or select Quick adjust to choose from preset combinations. Default settings can be restored by pressing the O (Q. Depending on which Nikon digital camera you own, you have various picture controls settings to choose from. These are Standard, Neutral, Vivid and Monochrome. Some Nikon D-SLRs also have an expanded range of picture controls including Flat, Portrait and Landscape.
Custom Nikon Picture Controls
Picture Controls can be found in many Nikon digital cameras, including D-SLRs, the Nikon 1 interchangeable lens cameras and COOLPIX point and shoot models.
Nikon Picture Control Utility 2
Under the Shooting menu, highlight Select Picture Control to change the Picture Control. To create custom Picture Control settings, or to install optional Picture Controls, highlight Manage Picture Control.