nikon d7100 color problem?

its just me ? or it happen to other .... im getting non true color sometimes to warm or too cold ... any tips for a fix?

Check your white balance setting. I suspect it's on something other than Auto, so it's too hot or too cold depending on the situation.

I find my D7100 to be a slight bit on the warm side which I tweak in post. However, it is not uncommon for different cameras to have a bias.

My old D80 seemed to be a bit more consistent with colours & white balance than the D7000 and D7100, but yes, easily rectified by tweaking the white balance settings later.

Do you shoot Raw?

all the time , when i look at my brother pictures (he is using 6d and 550d before (canon..)) i can see that his color look slightly better in terms of true color but sometimes i feel like the WB is not that accurate and miss sometimes ,,, what are you suggesting to do

Make sure your White Balance is in auto, and if necessary you can tweak the white balance after you load the images into Lightroom or some similar program.

Interesting you mention the Canon cameras, as my little G12 seems to give a more accurate sky blue than any of the Nikons I've used, regardless of white balance tweaking.

mauckcg said:

Make sure your White Balance is in auto, and if necessary you can tweak the white balance after you load the images into Lightroom or some similar program.

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I use Auto White Balance as well, but there are situations that can definitely confuse the camera and require sometimes radical adjustments in post. The downside to auto is that in some situations you can get radically different looks in the same place when there's a mix of sun and shade, or natural and artificial light. This can be maddening when you want to have a uniform look across a group of shots. Setting it with a grey card, will help you here, though it will require that you reset as you move from one area to the other. I have a brother who shoots Canon too, and his WB is almost always spot on, but I attribute that to his 30 years of experience far more than the equipment. Awareness of your lighting is one of those things you develop as a photographer (I'm still working on it), and until then and likely after you can just be thankful for ACR.

No problems here..........

For a better true color if you're shooting in the same light for mulitple pictures, set a custom W/B.

lets say now im going for macro , me and my brother going there he is with flash im without , now i can see that his macro in terms of color look slightly cooler but also more real , so how can i tweak it to be more accurate color ? cause i dont want to go with grey card to any place i will be , so what you suggest changing at the WB for it to be more accurate? BTW ( im not saying the color are not good they are different and more warm )

I certainly wouldn't say there's any problem with Nikon or more specifically D7100 colours, regardless of the white balance. I'm happy with what I get, but I would be a tiny bit happier if the sky blue was more like what my little G12 does. the G1X I had was the same as well. No matter what I've done in post or with the white balance settings, it never looks quite as accurate as the Canon (should I be saying this here, lol?)

i got it solveed all you need to do is using spot WB as a all time preset

Whenever you want to discuss color, there's not much sense to compare images taken with the camera set at auto-WB. In Auto WB, the same camera may behave very differently under different light conditions and ISO settings. When you start to compare different cameras under the same light condition but both set to auto-WB, you find that different cameras have very different WB algorithm. To really compare colors, the only way is to have the two cameras capture the same image in manual mode - same F stop, same ISO, same shutter speed and both set to the same PRESET WB in Kelvins. Then, you'll see the differences in the way the cameras process the images and comparisons of color will make sense. At our glamor/fashion photo workshops, we all shot the same models with the same studio strobe lights but Canon users were told to set their WB to 6000K and Nikon users were asked to set WB to 5850K.

Attached are two photos of a musical, one shot by my brother-in-law with a Canon 5D Mark? (full sensor) and by me with my Nikon 7100. This is one of the rare occasions that I shot with Auto-WB and so did my BIL because stage lighting is always changing an rather convoluted. His was shot at ISO3200 and mine at ISO6400. You can see the difference in the WB from the two cameras. (Both shot raw and process by Lightroom, saving to JPG sRGB at 60%) Most pros like the Canon engines better when it comes to rendering auto WB. Canon does an even more superior job if you shoot JPG as it's JPG engine is consider head and shoulder above Nikons (That's the reason you see mostly Canon shooters on the side line of sporting events - they all have to shoot JPG and Canon wins!)
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If you want to see more images from the play click here - the lighting was a photographer's nightmare - low and colorful and changing all the time! All images were shot at ISO 6400, shutter speed from 1/30 to 1/250.