How do I take off the sepia effect on a panasonic DMCsZ7? I must have accidentally put it on, but can't get it off. Thx

Answer is in the manual - in case you don't have it please do this:
To change selected picture effects ([Creative Control] menu)Press [MENU/SET]
Use cursor button to select [Creative Control] menu and press [MENU/SET]
Press up/down to select a setting ( there are a few eg. Sepia, Retro, Soft Focus, Expressive, Toy etc, and then press [MENU/SET] ( pressing DISP should give you an explanation of what each item selected does)
Hope this solves your problem.
Cheers
Mike

The TG-310 does not have any way of taking black&white photos, nor does it offer a method to convert photos to black&white.
However, you can convert a color photo to black&white (or sepia, or cyanotype, or a lot of other effects) using just about any photo editing program on a computer. This actually gives you more control over the conversion, as you can control things like contrast and brightness.

The DSC-H55 does not have black-and-white or sepia modes. You can do the conversion using just about any photo editing program on a computer. Doing so on a computer will give you much better control over factors such as brightness and contrast, as well as allowing you to apply filter effects.

The menus and terminology vary a bit between makes of camera but this example is for the popular Panasonic range of Lumix cameras:-
1. Switch the camera to Manual Mode -
2. Press the Menu button -
3. Navigate with the 'go up' or 'go down' buttons to 'Col.Effect' -
4. Use the 'go right' button to move the cursor right -
5. A list appears with 'Sepia' as one of the options -
6. Use the 'go down' button to move the setting down to 'Sepia' -
7. Click the central 'Set' button once to select the 'Sepia' setting and return to the 'Menu' -
8. Press 'Set' button again to exit from Menu and start snapping in Sepia!!

From the REC mode menu, take a look at "Color Effect" to see whether it's on something other than "OFF". Off is the normal setting, not black&white, sepia, etc.

You can download a copy of the manual from the manufacturer's web site at http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-electronics/support/Cameras-Camcorders/Digital-Cameras/Lumix-Digital-Cameras/model.DMC-FZ28K

Go into the menu and find "filters". Black and white is one of the choices.

Black ink might be low - So the printer will automatically default to the darkest color available mixed with gray - this can create a sepia effect.

Hi,

1. Turn the mode dial to "P".

2. Press the MENU SET button.

3. In the menu that comes up, scroll with the up and down buttons until a menu item named "COL. EFFECT" is highlighted. Now press the right arrow button, and select the desired color effect. (Cool, warm, sepia, B&W).

You need a photo editor program that supports tranformation into sepia.

The easiest free way is to download Picasa 2
(Google Photo Manager)
http://picasa.google.com/

Once loaded you can autoscan you computer for photos....
Its a great manager....

Select the photo
Select the Effects button
Select Sepia

and Print....That Easy...

Check the WHITE BALANCE settings and the COLOR EFFECTS settings (marked as W. BALANCE and COL. EFFECTS when MENU is pressed).

When you got to the MENU setting, press up or down arrow until you reached either selection, press the left arrow, and you'll see several options under the selected function. In WHITE BALANCE, there's an option whether you'll be shooting under sunny or cloudy skies, tungsten or flourescent lighting, and an option to select Auto or Manually set White Balance. This affects the over all color tone as it compensates the color correction depending on your shooting conditions. Fluorescent lighting for example exhibits blue spectrum, thus setting White Balance to FLUORESCENT will add warm or yellow tones to the photo. Tungsten lighting and sunny conditions exhibits yellow lighting, and setting to the White Balance on this mode will add cool or bluish tone to the picture.

Same with COLOR EFFECTS: settings include WARM, COOL, SEPIA or BLACK AND WHITE (gray scale).

Chances are, you have accidentally set the WHITE BALANCE or COLOR EFFECTS to any of these. To see if this is the problem, try shooting under SIMPLE MODE (Marked with a HEART icon at the rotary dial on top right of the DMC-FZ7). If the problem goes away, then it is with the WHITE BALANCE and the COLOR EFFECTS settings. Try setting the COLOR EFFECTS to "OFF", and the WHITE BALANCE to "AUTO".

If all else fails, then you got a problem with the image sensor of your Panasonic DMC-FZ7 Digicam


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