Canon EOS Mark III: Using Picture Styles
The 5D Mark III has a number of Picture Styles that you can use to process your photos in-camera. Each predefined style has different color, saturation contrast, and sharpening settings:
| Style | Description |
|---|---|
| Auto | In this case, the camera applies the photo style (but not monochrome) it thinks is appropriate to the scene. Mileage may vary from photo to photo. |
| Standard | The default setting, this option promises sharp images with good contrast and strong colors. |
| Portrait | This mode reduces sharpening slightly (compared to Standard) to soften skin textures. |
| Landscape | In a nod to traditions of landscape photography, this Picture Style emphasizes greens and blues and amps up color saturation and sharpness, resulting in bolder images. |
| Neutral | Use the Neutral style if you want to edit your photos yourself. The colors are subdued but natural. |
| Faithful | The Faithful style is designed to render colors as closely as possible to how your eye perceives them in the daylight. |
| Monochrome | This setting produces black-and-white photos. You can also apply four different filters (yellow, orange, red, and green) and four different toning effects (sepia, blue, purple, and green). |
| User defined 1–3 | You have three spaces in which to save your own styles. After you create them, select them here. |