Our test lighting for this shot is a mixture of 60 and 100 watt household incandescent bulbs, a pretty yellow light source, but a very common one in typical home settings here in the U.S.Įxcellent results under harsh lighting, with good handling of color and contrast, but the D5300 underexposed our "Sunlit" Portrait shots. The Nikon D5300 required an average amount of positive exposure compensation here, at +0.3 EV. The Manual setting by far produced the most accurate results, if just a touch cool and magenta. ![]() (We'd say unacceptably so, though unfortunately this is common.) The Incandescent setting was also too warm, this time with a yellowish cast. Indoors, under normal incandescent lighting, color balance was very warm and reddish with the Auto white balance setting. About average positive exposure compensation required. Overly-warm results with Auto and Incandescent white balance settings, but good color with Manual. See thumbnails of all test and gallery images Click on any thumbnail above to see the full-sized image. The table above shows results with several saturation settings, see the Thumbnails index page for more (look for the files named D5300OUTBSATx.JPG). Saturation also doesn't impact contrast, which is ideal but not always the case. The fine steps between settings mean it's easy to program the camera to just the level of saturation you prefer. This covers a pretty wide range of saturation levels, about as wide a range as you're likely to find photographically relevant, apart from special effects that are arguably better achieved in software. The Nikon D5300 has a total of seven saturation levels available, three above and three below the default saturation, plus an Auto setting. (The cyan to blue shift is very common among the digital cameras we test we think it's a deliberate choice by camera engineers to produce better-looking sky colors.) With an average "delta-C" color error at base ISO of 6.24 after correction for saturation, overall hue accuracy is a bit lower than average, but still well within what we'd consider respectable. The Nikon D5300 shifts cyan toward blue quite a bit, with minor shifts in red toward orange, and light green toward yellow. Oversaturation is most problematic is on Caucasian skin tones, as it's veryĮasy for these "memory colors" to be seen as too bright, too pink, A good job when manual white balance is used. The Nikon D5300's produces healthy-looking pinkish Caucasian skin tones when using manual white balance in simulated daylight, while auto white balance produces slightly warm results. Like their color a bit brighter than life. Most consumerĭigital cameras produce color that's more highly saturated (more intense) The average for consumer DSLRs is about 10% oversaturated, so the D5300 produces slightly more vibrant colors than most at default settings, but it's easy to customize saturation to match your personal preference. Mean saturation is 113.6% or 13.6% oversaturated at base ISO, and remains fairly stable across the ISO range peaking at 115.1% at max ISO. The Nikon D5300 boosts dark blues quite a bit and also pushes dark green, red and orange by moderate amounts, but slightly undersaturates bright yellow, light green, and some cyans. Mouse over the links to compare ISOs, and click on them for larger images. Thus, hue-accurate, highly saturated colors appear as lines radiating from the center. Hue changes as you travel around the center. More saturated colors are located toward the periphery of the graph. In the diagram above, the squares show the original color, and the circles show the color that the camera captured.
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