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Hello.

I noticed one quite serious problem with my nikon D90.

When i take a picture i usually preview picture on lcd of my nikon d90.

And the problem is because picture looks perfec. Colors, sharpnes and everything looks fantastic.

But when i copy those photos to my coputer on big screen, the difference is really big. I have calibrated monitor and i tryed to look pictures on other computers and the problem is same with all.

The picture preview on D90 is not realistic at all. I have really problems with this isue. When im taking pictures I'm all excited and hardly wait to see them on computer and Im 100 % shure that everything is ok and great when I see them on back LCD. But when I see them on computer I notice so many mistakes that Im really mad about it.

I had Nikon D60 before and I didnt had any of this problems. Picture was same on comp. as it was on back LCD. The picture preview was far more realistic on D60.

But now with my nikon D90 I dont know how to shot anymore. It is really hard to get everything right because of that...
 
Hello Ale. I have a D90 and find the rear LCD display to be remarkably good. It gives me a pretty good indication of any significant colour casts and if I zoom in, a rough indication of focus and grain. Are you perhaps shooting in RAW and don't have proper conversion going on in your viewing tool? If yes, trying shooting a JPG and looking at it. Cheers, Peter
Ale Zupanc said:
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Hello.

I noticed one quite serious problem with my nikon D90.

When i take a picture i usually preview picture on lcd of my nikon d90.
And the problem is because picture looks perfec. Colors, sharpnes and
everything looks fantastic.
But when i copy those photos to my coputer on big screen, the
difference is really big. I have calibrated monitor and i tryed to
look pictures on other computers and the problem is same with all.
The picture preview on D90 is not realistic at all. I have really
problems with this isue. When im taking pictures I'm all excited and
hardly wait to see them on computer and Im 100 % shure that
everything is ok and great when I see them on back LCD. But when I
see them on computer I notice so many mistakes that Im really mad
about it.
I had Nikon D60 before and I didnt had any of this problems. Picture
was same on comp. as it was on back LCD. The picture preview was far
more realistic on D60.
But now with my nikon D90 I dont know how to shot anymore. It is
really hard to get everything right because of that...
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No problem with my D-90. Find the monitor to be acceptable. Camera is the 3rd Nikon DSLR and all is right with the world. Love it.
 
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I can paste example here, when I get home, but you won't see any difference, because you canno't see the picture on my camera.

I shoot in jpeg most of the time, actualy i was till few days ago. Because of none reallistic preview i rather shot in raw, that i can correct my photos later on my comp.

Pictures look far more colorful, contrast far better on my camera.

I know that I can correct some settings about that in camera menu, but when it looks ok on LCD, it should look ok on computer, but it doesent.

When I was using D60, pictures on computer were better then on D60 lcd. Thats why I was far more precise with it. I didnt make so many mistakes as i make now...

For example.

I was shooting one 1.birth day for some friend. I took some great photos and everybody were very excited when we were looking photos on camera preview. When i took them down on computer, i was not so happy anymore. Everything was not so great anymore. And even others were saying that the pictures dont look so good on theyrs computers too, as they were on camera...

Im very disapointed about that. I have lost all my will because of that.
 
I do understand what you are saying, I sometimes find the smaller screen hides some flaws but learning to read and interpret the histogram will be useful for exposure/contrast issues.

Focus you should be able to zoom in and determine. I often have my rear display set for the color histogram and complete shooting info which then displays a much smaller image review. Perhaps you will get less excited at your image review with the smaller image similar to your older D50?

Joe
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Ja zdej je tko če fotkaš u NEF pol boš verjetno imu na monitorju mal drugačne tonske vrednosti kot pa na lcd od aparata, če fotkaš samo v jpg pol imej vedno na sRGB. Sicer imam jest tud d90, ampak so na lcd-ju kr enake barve kot pa na monitorju, čist isto pa logično da ne more bit ker lcd na aparatu ni merilo za kakšne kalibracije al pa kej podobnga.
Aja pa še brightnes mal poglej če imaš nastavljeno na nulo.
 
Ale Zupanc said:
I noticed one quite serious problem with my nikon D90.
When i take a picture i usually preview picture on lcd of my nikon d90.
And the problem is because picture looks perfec. Colors, sharpnes and
everything looks fantastic.
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Somehow, this is not a problem for me. What is showing on my D90 monitor is very close to identical to what displays on my calibrated PC monitor, and even, what prints from my printer. I'm ecstatic with the accuracy of the back lcd.
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. . . shoot like there's no film in the thing!
 
I have noticed this to a small degree, with my D90. LCD images have slightly better color, contrast and sharpness, than on a comoputer monitor and not just when shooting in RAW. I have calibrated the monitor several times and also looked at the images on several other monitors.

Isn't part of the issue that the pic is condensed into such a small size, on the LCD, that it looks sharper and a little better than when viewed at 100%?

I have never had a problem fixing this in PP. The same thing happened with both Sony cams I own, so I guess I am used to it.

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Maybe you could try this:

1. Check which color space you are using. Set color space to sRGB (not Adobe RGB) for best results on different computer displays.

2. Maybe the way the D90 treats colors is what you don't like compared to your D60? Try playing with the picture controls. For a start, set the picture control to "Vivid" and see if you like it - this should give you results closer to what you're used to from the D60.

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Bohemien said:
Maybe you could try this:

1. Check which color space you are using. Set color space to sRGB
(not Adobe RGB) for best results on different computer displays.

2. Maybe the way the D90 treats colors is what you don't like
compared to your D60? Try playing with the picture controls. For a
start, set the picture control to "Vivid" and see if you like it -
this should give you results closer to what you're used to from the
D60.

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Regards, Markus

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lebohemien/
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Yes i know about vivid option. Im using vivid now, and Im going to try standard for a while, just to see how it goes. But Im not sure about color space. Ill check that now.

Thank you all. Ill try with the settings, but anyway I know that back lcd is not realistic at al,l and that can be a problem... Im not very happy about it.

thx
 
What kind of panel is in your monitor? Is it a TN LCD panel?

Not all panels can display a full range of colours, and some displays use dithering. It's possible you calibrated it as best you could but that the display still has limitations.

Ie, you could attempt to calibrate a TN monitor or a moniter which uses dithering and it still wouldn't be realistic. The calibration is a best effort.
 
Is much better. Every looks great on it due to it higher resolution, but you have to remember, it still a very small picture, and its going to hide most faults that you see pixel peeping on a 20" monitor.
 
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