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8 Little Steps To Make The NX1 Perfect - A Firmware Review of Version 1.20

Started Feb 6, 2015 | Discussions thread
OP Jan Behrens Regular Member • Posts: 135
Gamma C / Gamma DR - Not a bug!
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Jan Behrens wrote:

Gamma Control settings cause Picture Wizard settings to be ignored

Setting "Gamma Control" to "Gamma C" or "Gamma DR" seems to cause all "Picture Wizard" settings to be ignored:

  • Picture Wizard preset (Off, Standard, Classic, Vivid, etc.)
  • Color
  • Saturation
  • Sharpness
  • Contrast
  • Hue

Since it is often desirable to disable the sharpness filter to allow for proper post-processing, it looks like the "Gamma C" and "Gamma DR" settings are unusable in this case.

Maybe "Gamma C" and "Gamma DR" are just shortcuts to increase or decrease the contrast? If yes, then it's not really a bug (because you can use the Picture Wizard instead of Gamma Control), but it's still confusing.

After consulting the manual, I noticed the arrows on top of the "Gamma C" and "Gamma DR" icons. Pressing the DISP button, the settings

  • Color
  • Saturation
  • Sharpness
  • Contrast
  • Hue

can be changed for the particular Gamma Control preset when being in the Gamma Control menu. Therefore it's not a bug (and I should have consulted the manual earlier). However, this only works with "Gamma C" and "Gamma DR". Usually working with a high dynamic range (i.e. selecting "Gamma DR"), the NX1 allows me to make the above settings (Color, Saturation, etc.) for video recording independent of my settings for capturing photos.

But this feature works only if you use a non-default Gamma Control setting. It would be nice (and probably less confusing) if it was also possible for the "Normal" gamma curve to make video-recording specific settings. I imagine the following four settings for Gamma Control:

  • Normal (Picture Wizard settings apply)
  • Custom (Color, Saturation, etc. can be adjusted independently of the Picture Wizard)
  • Gamma C (Color, Saturation, etc. can be adjusted independently of the Picture Wizard)
  • Gamma DR (Color, Saturation, etc. can be adjusted independently of the Picture Wizard)

Alternatively those 4 settings could be named:

  • Picture Wizard
  • Gamma N
  • Gamma C
  • Gamma DR

(where "Picture Wizard" uses the Picture Wizard settings, and Gamma N/C/DR allow independent settings to be stored for video recording)

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