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Here are the results of some tests that I have performed with my Nikon D70 just to better understand its various settings.

The tests were performed setting the exposure on a white cardboard and using the exposure correction from -5EV to +3EV:

The horizontal axis shows the exposure and the vertical axis shows the resulting JPG pixel value.

The tests were done with this as a single subject (I do not like tests done with artificial color grids):

The original was 3008x2000 and below you see only the 400x250 crop from the middle (which is less than 2%).

White balancing = Auto Image optimization = Normal
White balancing = calibrated on the background (the wall) Image optimization = Normal (further tests have WB calibrated the same way)
Image optimization = Vivid
Image optimization = Sharper
Image optimization = Softer
Image optimization = Direct print
Image optimization = Portrait
Image optimization = Landscape
Image optimization = Custom Everything set to 0.
Image optimization = Custom Sharpening = Low (-2) Everything else set to 0.
Image optimization = Custom Sharpening = High (+2) Everything else set to 0.
Image optimization = Custom Sharpening = None Everything else set to 0.
Image optimization = Custom Tone comp. = Low (-2) Everything else set to 0.
Image optimization = Custom Tone comp. = High (+2) Everything else set to 0.
Image optimization = Custom Color mode = II AdobeRGB Everything else set to 0.
Image optimization = Custom Color mode = IIIa sRGB Everything else set to 0.
Image optimization = Custom Saturation = Moderate (-) Everything else set to 0.
Image optimization = Custom Saturation = Enhanced (+) Everything else set to 0.
Image optimization = Custom Hueue adj. = -9 Everything else set to 0.
Image optimization = Custom Hueue adj. = +9 Everything else set to 0.
Few clicks in GIMP. :-) (so why care about the camera settings at all?)