Operation Manual

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Using Camera Control Pro

The Camera Menu 1/4

The commands in the Camera menu are used to adjust the following camera settings:

Custom Settings…

Selecting this option opens the

Custom Settings dialog

Custom Settings dialog, where camera Custom Set tings can be

ad just ed.

Set Date and Time…

Selecting this op tion opens the dialog shown at right, where you can

set the cam era’s clock calendar to the current date and time. To view

the cur rent time and date set tings, click Use Current Date/Time.

Click Set to set the clock cal en dar to the time and date shown.

Edit Camera Curves…

This op tion is used to create a custom tone com pen sa tion curve and down load it to the cam era,

where it applies when “Cus tom” is se lect ed for the camera tone compensation option.

The controls in the Edit Camera Curves win dow are similar to those used to edit tone curves in

Adobe Photoshop and other imaging software, except in the following respects: (1) only the mas-

ter channel, not individual RGB channels, may be edited; (2) there is a limit of 20 spline points; (3)

the midpoint may not be edited; (4) a user-deﬁ ned sample image can be se lect ed by clicking

Sample Image… (the sample image must be a RAW image created with a D1-series, D2-series,

D100, D200, D70S, D70, or D50 camera). Any chang es to curves are reﬂ ected in the sample image.

In the case of the D2Xs, up to three curves can be edited using the Select the Curve for Edit

menu. To copy the edited curve to the camera, click OK.

The upper left section of the Edit Camera Curves window contains Load… and Save… but tons.

By clicking the Load… button, previously stored curves, with less than 20 spline points, can be

selected via the “Open” dialog (if the selected ﬁ le has more than 20 spline points, a warning will

be displayed, and no ﬁ le will be loaded). The Curves settings ﬁ les from Nikon Capture Editor can

also be selected. Look for ﬁ les with the “.ntc” or “.ncv” ex ten sion.

The Save… button opens the “Save As” dialog, where you can save the current curve.