New D90 Color Issue

[Ken1212]

I just bought a D90 after using a point and shoot kodak for the past 4 years. I am having a difficult time with the color on the photos as they look more yellow orange under auto settings, looks like an older photo. Since I am a beginner with the SLR cameras I am shooting in Auto mode. The quality of my 6.0M kodak camera as far as color seems much better than my D90 as it has a nice color balance, other family members thought the same. Is this normal for the D90 to have more yellow and orange and less blue? Or is there something wrong with my camera? Is the box supposed to be sealed as mine was not but the sales rep at best buy got it from the locked case (Closed box but not sealed, I am curious if it is a return), your input is appreciated. Here is a link for some sample photos, these are original unedited photos shot in full Auto Mode.
http://s587.photobucket.com/albums/ss315/ken1212/D90%20Sample%20Photos/

 

[FoolyCooly]

Accurate colors aren't always pleasing. Try setting a different picture control.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond90/page11.asp

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[Patco]

If you want your indoor shots to look less warm, try setting the WB manually.
Nikon does not seal their boxes.

I just bought a D90 after using a point and shoot kodak for the past 4 years. I am having a difficult time with the color on the photos as they look more yellow orange under auto settings, looks like an older photo. Since I am a beginner with the SLR cameras I am shooting in Auto mode. The quality of my 6.0M kodak camera as far as color seems much better than my D90 as it has a nice color balance, other family members thought the same. Is this normal for the D90 to have more yellow and orange and less blue? Or is there something wrong with my camera? Is the box supposed to be sealed as mine was not but the sales rep at best buy got it from the locked case (Closed box but not sealed, I am curious if it is a return), your input is appreciated. Here is a link for some sample photos, these are original unedited photos shot in full Auto Mode.
http://s587.photobucket.com/albums/ss315/ken1212/D90%20Sample%20Photos/

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[WineO]

Are you shooting Jpeg or Raw? What software are you using. What colour soace do you use? Colour settings can be altered in camera, in processing software and also check your monitor for colour balance.
Claude

 

[sincraft]

The nikons I've seen do not have a seal. Just a secure flap kinda.

You can tell if it was played around with at all. The camera will come with a plastic bag over it that is antistatic. Then its wrapped in bubble wrap. It looks a bit neater than if you and I wrapped it up...hard to explain. Same goes for the lens, it should have a cover over it that was tight.

The cables should all have twist ties on them (battery charger, usb connector)

If it didn't arrive like this, then I wouldn't have accepted it.

Your color issues are : you are expecting SUPERIOR results from your point and shoot. Don't. Take my advice, stick with the point and shoot while you learn the d90. In 3 months you will probably never be using that point and shoot again once you get the HECK out of auto mode.

If you insist on using those modes, be sure to try the different presets. On the d5000, you can switch from party mode, night scenes, etc etc etc. Not sure about the d90 but I'm sure they have various modes also.

Just don't get too upset about things for awhile...

Keep in mind also that point and shoots take colors and amp them up alot. It attracts people. But lets be honest that black or red shirt you washed 30 times doesn't look like that in real life.

You can change the color settings to presets, like vivid - neutral etc. Play aroudn with that and see what you like best. Also try different white balances. If you are shooting indoors which I suspect you are doing, you will notice it as being more yellow. You are using yellow lightbulbs and low light to capture images.

What happens when you darken the room even more with regular bulbs? Things look even more yellow? Well a camera sees things darker than our eyes. So if you want a better idea of what colors you are getting from the camera go outside and take a picture, then come in and compare the shot with what your eyes see. If you don't like it, tweak it. You can also tweak EACH shot for your tastes, but of course that gets old unless you are composing for exact images and not just running around shooting stuff.

If you shoot in raw too you can adjust alot of this stuff later in post processing using software. RAW allows you more room to tinker whereas jpg is a compressed version of the image captured from your camera and thus does not. That is not to say you can't tweak jpgs, you just wont get nearly as much out of them pp as you would raws.

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[Steven W. Bennett]

I just bought a D90 after using a point and shoot kodak for the past 4 years. I am having a difficult time with the color on the photos as they look more yellow orange under auto settings, looks like an older photo. Since I am a beginner with the SLR cameras I am shooting in Auto mode. The quality of my 6.0M kodak camera as far as color seems much better than my D90 as it has a nice color balance, other family members thought the same. Is this normal for the D90 to have more yellow and orange and less blue? Or is there something wrong with my camera?

Nikon boxes are not sealed. There's nothing wrong with your
camera. Notice that the first photo, taken outside, doesn't look
yellow at all? The other three were taken inside with flash, and
the white balance control is set to auto. It could be a simple
case of mixed lighting which can bias the color results. Did you
have incandescent bulbs on when the flash shot was taken?
Was there window light?

Once you get out of auto mode, you will be able to change the
white balance setting. Try flash WB when using the flash and
see if that helps. Try to use P mode as a first step from Auto.
The camera will give you a range of acceptable shutter speed/
aperture combinations which make it fairly simple to use, but
at the same time you will be able to customize a lot of options,
including white balance and picture controls.

Steve

 

[Panocho]

Is this normal for the D90 to have more yellow and orange and less blue?

Generally all Picture Controls have a slight tendency to red... (except D2X modes) but definitively it's more important set a correct WB (Automatic tends in some situations to choose warm temperature). If you prefer more blue, you can try Landscape (customize a bit in Picture Control Utility accord to your preferences).

 

[Punctu]

If for some reason you have Adobe RGB color profile, change it to SRGB. Adobe RGB is only usefull IF you really know what you are doing and most programs don't know how to display it properly.

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