Nikon Capture 4 - Manual (Page 136)

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The Camera Control Window
The Camera Menu
The commands in the
Camera menu are used to adjust the following camera settings:
Custom Settings…
Selecting this option opens the Custom Settings dialog ( 135), 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 Cam era 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 identical to those in the Curves win dow,
except in the following respects: (1) only the master 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 D2-series, D1-series, D200, D100, D70s, D70, or D50
camera). Any chang es to curves are refl ected in the sample image. 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). Look for fi les with the “.ntc”
ex ten sion.
The Save… button opens the “Save As” dialog, where you can save the current curve.