Editing Pictures

Enhancing Brightness and Contrast: D-Lighting

D-Lighting can be used to create copies with enhanced brightness and contrast,
brightening dark portions of a picture. Enhanced copies are stored as separate
files.

Select the desired picture from full-frame

(A 26) or thumbnail (A 43) playback mode
and press d.
The playback menu will be shown.

Choose D-Lighting with the multi selector

and press k.

Playback menu
D-Lighting
Print set
Slide show
Delete
Protect
Exit

The original version will be shown on the left and the

edited version will be shown on the right.

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Choose OK and press k.

D-Lighting

A new copy with enhanced brightness and contrast is

created.
To cancel D-Lighting, choose Cancel and press k.
OK
Cancel

D-Lighting copies can be recognized by the c icon

displayed during playback.

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More Information

See, Image/Sound File and Folder Names (A 116) for more information.

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Compensating Blurred Images After Shooting: Electronic VR

Blurring in pictures shot without electronic VR enabled, and marked with S (electronic VR guide)
in full-frame playback mode, can be compensated with electronic VR after shooting. When electronic
VR is applied to pictures after they are shot, compensated copies are stored as separate files.

Select the desired picture from playback

mode (A 26) and press k.

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Blurring compensation can only be applied to pictures

marked with S.
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Use the multi selector to choose OK and press

k.
Compensated image is created.
To cancel vibration reduction, choose Cancel and press
k.

Reduce blur?

OK
Cancel

More on Playback

For compensated images, the R icon is displayed in the

monitor during playback.

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Note on Electronic VR

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In addition to the restrictions described in Restrictions on Picture
Editing (A 45), electronic VR cannot be used for the following pictures:
Pictures on which advanced red-eye reduction was applied (A 29).
Pictures taken with Continuous, BSS (Best Shot Selector), Multi-shot 16, or Intvl timer shooting (A 86).
Pictures with Date imprint (A 105).
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Pictures taken with other cameras.
Pictures with minor blur, or pictures that are badly blurred.
Pictures taken with slow or very fast shutter speeds.
Pictures with sensitivity of ISO 800 or above (A 88).
Pictures that an R icon or Q icon is displayed (A 107).

See Electronic VR (The Setup Menu) (A 107) or Image/Sound File and Folder Names (A 116) for
more information.

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Creating a Cropped Copy: Crop

This function is only available when u is displayed in the monitor with
playback zoom (A 44) enabled. Cropped copies are stored as separate files.

Press g (i) in full-frame playback mode to

zoom in on the image.

Refine copy composition.

Press g (i) or f (h) to adjust the zoom ratio.
Press the multi selector H, I, J or K to scroll the picture
until only the portion you want to copy is visible in the
monitor.
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Press d.

Use the multi selector to choose Yes and

press k.
A new picture, containing only the portion visible in the
monitor, is created.

Save this image as

displayed?

No
Yes

Depending on the size of the original picture and the zoom ratio in effect at the time the copy was
created, the camera will automatically select one of the following image-mode settings for cropped
copies (unit: pixels).

y 3,264 2,448 e 2,592 1,944 g 2,048 1,536 h 1,600 1,200 i 1,280 960
j 1,024 768

k 640 480

l 320 240

m 160 120

When the image-mode setting for a cropped copy is 320240 or 160120, a gray frame will
appear around the picture during playback, and the m or n small picture icons will appear on the
left side of the monitor.

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More Information

See Image/Sound File and Folder Names (A 116) for more information.