Canon 30D - Manual (Page 29)

Page 29 of 35 © Ken Rockwell 2006
Monochrome is Black and White. You can change the contrast, sharpening,
add a sepia effect or even simulate the effect of using a colored filter in front
of the lens in B/W. B/W of course offers no saturation or skin tone (color tone)
tweaks
User Def. 1, 2 and 3 are where you store your own sets of color parameters.
It's important to play with these to get the look you want. This is how I get bold
color right out of my camera.
To select or adjust one of these Picture Styles:
1. Press MENU and spin the Big Dial to highlight Picture Style. Press
SET.
2. Spin the Big Dial to select one of them.
3. Press SET to use it,
or
Press JUMP to adjust it. If you want to adjust the settings, spin the Big Dial to
select what to adjust. If you choose a preset Picture Style first, you pull down
all the settings from that fixed preset as a starting point for your own tweaks.
Once you've spun to one of the parameters, like Contrast, press SET and spin
to adjust it.
Press MENU to lock in your selection. This last step is important. If, after
making a change, you press anything other than MENU, your change will be
ignored. Sorry! That drove me nuts until I figured it out.
It's easier to do than to write about.
When looking at the User Defined 1, 2 and 3 settings in the menu, they are
blue if altered, or white if at defaults.
Thank God you'll probably only need to set these once!
I set mine all to defaults, except I set my User Def 1 to +2 for saturation, User
Def 2 to +3 Saturation, and User Def 3 to +4 saturation.
Trick: Once you have these set, you can set Custom Function 01 to let you
select among these nine sets using a push of the SET button! I LOVE this- it
makes it easy for me to select just how loud I want my colors for each shot. I
wish my Nikons could do this.