Specifications

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Editor:

Consistent with Canon’s practice of providing a complete software package at no additional

expense to purchasers of its Digital SLR cameras, the EOS Digital Solution Disk Ver.15 is

included with the EOS 40D camera. It includes Picture Style Editor Ver.1.0 a new program

discussed here. The other software on the disk has been upgraded for EOS 40D compat-

ibility, including RAW files. EOS Utility Ver.2.1 allows folder monitoring with the Wireless

File Transmitter WFT-E3A and link-ups with Picture Style Editor.

“Picture Style” was first included as part of EOS Digital in the fall of 2005. Since then, it

has become a standard feature in EOS Digital and will be incorporated into the entire

current EOS product range in the latter half of 2007. These features, namely:

• the standardization of image characteristics across all EOS Digital models

• optimized support for photographic expression according to purpose

• support for RAW images shot on older models in DPP

• support for web downloading of Picture Style files according to purpose,

have been very well received by users. That said, there have also been calls from

advanced users with particularly stringent demands in terms of image processing for

even more flexible adjustments that go beyond the preset characteristics supplied by Canon.

The Picture Style Editor, as the name suggests, is software that allows users to create

their own Picture Style files. To create his or her own Picture Style file, the user selects

and loads a sample RAW image and then adjusts the image characteristics based on

one of the existing Picture Style settings (Standard, Portrait, Landscape, Neutral or

Faithful) except for Monochrome. The created Picture Style file can then be registered in

the camera using EOS Utility or used in the DPP or RAW Image Task applications.

Existing Picture Style Detail settings: Color Tone, Color saturation, Contrast and

Sharpness adjustments

b. Color specification and individual minute adjustments to specified colors: selection

of a specific color in the sample image and adjustment of the hue, saturation and

Luminosity, as well as minute adjustments to the gamma characteristics (tone curve)

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