What's this feature/function called?

Ecocabbie

A complete novice photographer looing to buy a new digital camera, IM searching now on Pixmania.

A friend of mine showed me their camera recently (a Sony cybershot perhaps) and it had an effect on it that isolated certain colours when you took the shot- like all the reds and then the rest is B&W or something.

Anyone know what Im on about? Or what that's called so I know whether a specific camera can do that before i buy one
Or can anyone recommend a camera up to 200EUR good that would do that?

cheers!

Dragan

It's a nice enough option, but is really aimed at people who only want to use a point and shoot, have no real interest in post production and don't really want to follow up on photography too much.

You can do the same, to any photo, in any half decent program by just adjusting the saturation over the various colour channels.

Do you see yourself growing into photography, or just being happy to stay at the amateur end of things?

La La

it's called Selective Colour.

my friend's P+S has that function but i cant remember what camera he uses.

you can do it in Photoshop too, though

Ecocabbie

Thank you both, selective colour.. ok thanks

I would like to see myself move up eventually but am happy being amateurish for a while;). Just thought some of those type of shots might excite me into the former.

If anyone knows a model taht would do this do let me know, thanks!

Dragan

I was the same, started out with the smaller camera and just got bitten by the bug. I have had a quick google there but can't find any decent information around makes or models for you i am afraid!

PaulieC

I have a Canon P&S that does this - I'm not sure whether it's a Powershot A420 or A430, but I got it in Argos a couple years ago for less that 100 euros. As fars as I know, my Canon G9 does it too

Ecocabbie

cool, thanks;)