Image parameters

The DSC-V3 provides just three levels of adjustment (-1 to +1) for each of the contrast, saturation and sharpness image parameters. I'll give Sony the same berating as I've given to other manufacturers who offer such a limited range of adjustment, you need to do better! This amount of adjustment equates to a token gesture and doesn't really provide the photographer with any useful level of adjustment.

Image parameter adjustments

• Contrast: -, 0, +
• Saturation: -, 0, +
• Sharpness: -, 0, +

Contrast

Adjusting the tone alters the shape of the curve used to map the linear image data captured by the sensor into the correct gamma. A lower contrast setting maintains more of the original data's dynamic range but leads to a flatter looking image. A higher contrast setting stretches the grayscale (dark to light) of the image and could lead to clipping of both shadow detail and highlights.

	Contrast	Luminosity histogram
-
0
+

Saturation

Saturation adjustment allows you to control the strength of color in the final image.

	Saturation	100% Crop
-
0
+

Sharpness

You can reduce sharpnening halos by setting the camera's sharpness parameter to the '-' setting, however that also impacts on the level of detail delivered which can in the case of the V3 be fairly difficult to recover in post-processing.

Sharpness: -
Sharpness: 0
Sharpness: +