D500
Modifying Picture Controls: Clarity
Adjust clarity manually or select "A" to let the camera adjust clarity automatically. Depending on the scene, shadows may appear around bright objects or halos may appear around dark objects at some settings. Clarity is not applied to movies.
"Clarity" is a subset of "Sharpness", but one that increases or decreases the difference in brightness among ten neighboring pixels. As a result, increasing clarity brings out larger details, making portrait subjects more dignified or landscapes more dramatic. Reducing clarity has a softening effect similar to a soft-focus lens for softer, gentler portraits and brighter, lighter, snapshot-style landscapes. Choose a setting according to your creative intent.
Procedure
Highlight the desired Picture Control in the Picture Control list and press
.
Press
or 
to highlight the desired setting and press 
or to choose a value in increments of 1, or rotate the
sub-command dial to choose a value in increments of 0.25. Repeat this step until all
settings have been adjusted, or select a preset combination of settings by highlighting
Quick adjust and pressing or . Default settings can be restored by pressing the
button.
.Picture Controls that have been modified from default settings are indicated by an asterisk (
) in the Set Picture Control menu.