Sony   DXC-D50PL  PAL

High-Performance Digital Signal Processing

Creative Image Control

Natural Color Reproduction with "Knee Saturation Control"

Traditionally, shooting very bright portions of an object (such as key light reflections from a person's forehead)

can reduce color saturation and change the hue in highlight areas.

The DXC-D50/D50WS cameras adopt a Knee Saturation Control function in which this 'washed-out'

effect on saturation and hue change is reduced to a minimum, and far more natural color reproduction in

highlight areas is achieved.

Adaptive Highlight Control

Low Key Saturation

With traditional cameras, low-light areas can be subject to reduced saturation, resulting in the color in

these areas being "washed-out". The Low Key Saturation function on the DXC-D50 series helps eliminate this problem by optimizing the amplification of color saturation at low light levels, providing more natural color reproduction.

Cross-Color Suppression

Separating the luminance and chrominance components of a composite signal can be a difficult task, even with the most advanced comb-filtering techniques. In order to keep cross color and cross luminance to a minimum, the DXC-D50 series virtually eliminates frequency components that may result in such artifact being generated prior to the signal output. These frequency components are virtually eliminated from the Y/R-Y/B-Y signals within the camera head through sophisticated digital three-line (NTSC)/five-line (PAL) comb filtering, resulting in a great reduction of the cross color and dot crawl

normally seen on picture monitors fed with a composite video signal.

Skin-Tone Detail Control

The Skin-Tone Detail function on the DXC-D50/D50WS allows softer detail correction to be applied in the facial area, while maintaining the sharpness of other parts of the picture. The Skin-Tone Detail area can be selected simply and

quickly using the Area-Detect Cursor in the viewfinder screen. The color range for the Skin-Tone Detail (and