Nikon D70 Color Saturation

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I recently purchused a Nikon D70. So far I am in love with everything
but the color saturation of my pictures. It appears as if the colors
are flat (though perhaps accurate). It is almost like I need a color
enhancing filter. This appears true of photos taken with flash
(built-in and SB-800). Without having to enhance every photo on my
computer are the some suggested camera setting changes? Changes to WB?
Would a color enhancing filter be the answer? Is there a way to
increase contrast on the camera? Can anyone suggest a location on the
web to find more info?

Thanks

P.S. I searched archives and noticed that others had similar
observations about color saturation but all of the suggestions involved
post processing.

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Andy in Herndon, VA wrote:
> I recently purchused a Nikon D70. So far I am in love with everything
> but the color saturation of my pictures. It appears as if the colors
> are flat (though perhaps accurate). It is almost like I need a color
> enhancing filter. This appears true of photos taken with flash
> (built-in and SB-800). Without having to enhance every photo on my
> computer are the some suggested camera setting changes? Changes to WB?
> Would a color enhancing filter be the answer? Is there a way to
> increase contrast on the camera? Can anyone suggest a location on the
> web to find more info?
>
> Thanks
>
> P.S. I searched archives and noticed that others had similar
> observations about color saturation but all of the suggestions involved
> post processing.
>

"post processing" reminds me of my old days of film photo.
I could do much more nowadays with my D70 using software than filters.
qt

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"Andy in Herndon, VA" <alacher@cox.net> writes:

> P.S. I searched archives and noticed that others had similar
> observations about color saturation but all of the suggestions involved
> post processing.

Maybe its covered in the manual; see pages 56, 59, and 60. (Uh, in the En
manual; others check Table of Contents for Optimizing Images.)

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Go to Shooting menu, then scroll down to Optimise Image sub menu, then go to
Custom. In here you can adjust Contrast, Sharpening Colour Mode and the one
you may find handy, Colour saturation. I have mine set to high on most
settings to give that 'punch' you may be seeking.


"freehand" <freehand2@eircom.net> wrote in message
news:WO0Ad.44675$Z14.21680@news.indigo.ie...
> Not sure what part of the world you are in but setting the D70 to cloudy
> instead of daylight gets better results here in Europe. Appears Japanese
> daylight is a hint warmer than the rest of the world!!;-)
>
> Andy in Herndon, VA wrote:
>> I recently purchused a Nikon D70. So far I am in love with everything
>> but the color saturation of my pictures. It appears as if the colors
>> are flat (though perhaps accurate). It is almost like I need a color
>> enhancing filter. This appears true of photos taken with flash
>> (built-in and SB-800). Without having to enhance every photo on my
>> computer are the some suggested camera setting changes? Changes to WB?
>> Would a color enhancing filter be the answer? Is there a way to
>> increase contrast on the camera? Can anyone suggest a location on the
>> web to find more info?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> P.S. I searched archives and noticed that others had similar
>> observations about color saturation but all of the suggestions involved
>> post processing.
>>

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Did you get any reply to this inquiry because I am having the same
problem. My old 5mp Sondy DSC-F717 gives me much better color and the
pictures are much crisper. What am I doning wrong?

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You can boost the color in the menu. I agree it's too bland for my taste
on the default setting but it's real easy to change.

PhotographicMemories wrote:

> Did you get any reply to this inquiry because I am having the same
> problem. My old 5mp Sondy DSC-F717 gives me much better color and the
> pictures are much crisper. What am I doning wrong?
>

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Rose_ wrote:

> This is ironic because I had the *opposite* problem last weekend when I
> saw a beautiful sunset and shot it with the D70 at "enhanced" Level
> III, the most saturated possible. What I got doesn't resemble the
> original at all in terms of color and I can't desaturate it properly in
> Photoshop. Here it is:
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~onepageweb/jpegs/sunset.JPG
> I have ordered Nikon Capture 4.1, will that help?


Hmm, that doesn't look oversaturated but maybe it's not the color you
wanted. This is certainly a case where RAW would have given you more to
work with. It is very quick to press the QUAL button & spin the dial for
a particular shot you think might have special needs. I've begun
shooting RAW & noticed the colors always come out a muddy brown using
the Auto WB. They are easily corrected in photoshop (well not super easy
but plenty of room to adjust anything). RAW has 15 bits instead of 8
bits so there is a lot more color to work with.

I'm not clear how to get the enhanced color to come out of the RAW
though, I'm using (I think) the Nikon Capture plugin with photoshop & it
only allows me to change the WB to several presets and brighten/darken
the exposure. All the other camera filters ought to be in there though
the plugin seems to lose them. Using Capture directly also does not use
those filter defaults though you can adjust a bunch of stuff, I prefer
doing that in PS.

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On 23 Jan 2005 13:35:26 -0800, in rec.photo.digital "Rose_"
<small-web@earthlink.net> wrote:

>Thanks but I guess I should have explained that I shot it in RAW + JPEG
>and the color is just as inaccurate in RAW/NEF (the original was a
>beautiful but more subtle sky blue).

How are you processing the raw file? By default most/all raw converters
will show/process with the camera settings as taken unless you change them.
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I Installed Nikon View as a plugin to my Photoshop 6. It opens okay
but I can't do anything with the color to make it look more natural,
meaning the way it really looked. I really don't recommend this
setting III (enhanced) personally, there doesn't seem to be a way to
lessen its effect afterward unless Capture will do it.

Thanks R