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Oh I'm with you now "preview image" has a green tinge / colour cast..
Does the live view present the same thing? , I mean like you say the images are fine when transferred onto the computer..
Regardless it's good to know as I tend to use Kelvin temps and the mix colour in depending on what I'm looking for, meaning if If seen a green tinge I would auto think that my temps are out abit
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Regarding the WB issue... Take a look at this..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=etUuYtMSjgI
Chris, I am not seeing any WB issues at all with the camera ( so far ) and it appears to be very very accurate.
The green issue is purely with the rear lcd screen when reviewing images. If there is a lot of green in the image that is taken the preview shows the whole image as having a colour cast ( green ) but the image when loaded to the pc and viewed on a calibrated monitor the green cast doesn't show.
As for that video, that fella clearly has very very limited knowledge of how to set a white balance. Personally I think he is more suited to pixel peeping images from a 10 year old Kodak ezy-share --------
There seems various reports about it but not enough for Nikon to say "yeh there's a problem" well infact they have stated that it isn't a problem.
I kinda meh with the whole thing as it's kinda to be one out of every 2000 of models (sarcastic humour inserted) that has this green tinged????.. lol
From what I seeing on the vid, I could see the green quite well.. not so much on the LCD /live view but differently on the image its self before he even showed before the adjusted one. Of course I don't doubt that there could be numerous of factors that could conclude this aswell.
Side Note: he was using custom WB with a proper WB/grey card and not AWB or Preset WB, also it does only seem to be popping up with semi setup / full setup studio work.. Just a thought??
Last edited by Chris G; 01-05-2012 at 8:48pm.
Having lived with the D800 now for almost 2 weeks, the WB seems very good now. Does it learn? I don't know, but it is really no different to any of the other Nikons I've had. Also, I do not see the green caste in the rear LCD sceen either. I wonder what has changed?
I've read a theory that it is to do with the process for bonding the screen, and that after a few weeks the solvent has fully dissipated, and the green hue is gone as well. Apparently a similar thing happened with some new iPads and a yellowish tint, which then went away.
Mind you, there's an awful lot of theories on t'internet
Mike.
Temperature can effect LCD screens. If people read the instructions with screen calibrators (Spyders etc) it says clearly to turn the monitor on and leave it about 20 minutes before calibrating.
If I take my D3 into the snow and use it, when I first turn it on, it looks awful, like it's broken, but once its been on a while and warms up, it is fine.
So when this green tinge was evident, was it very cold, very hot, had the LCD and camera just been turned on, been on for ages?
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Mike, not meaning to be rude but it does sound like a pretty lame theory to me.
When does the "few weeks" start from, when the camera is made, when the camera is sold, when the camera is subjected to sunlight for hours at a time?
I am going to assume for the purposes of this "theory" that it isn't the first two conditions as I reckon that all existing stock in Australia will have been manufactured quite a bit longer ago than "a few weeks" and quite a few have been in peoples hands for over 2 weeks.
That leaves exposure to sunshine ( or maybe just light in general ) as an option.
I will watch ours and see if they "change colour" over the next week or so.
As for White Balance. I wonder how many just use Auto-WB and expect it to be perfect every time they take a shot. It can't be! If these people whinging about WB are that serious, they would use a grey card and do a custom white balance for each shoot.
Any time, it aint just my eyes either as yesterday HelmutK compared the on camera image with the pc monitor image and yes, he sees green cast as well. It is very evident in images that contain medium to large amounts of green, less evident in images that have small amounts of green but still there.