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<blockquote data-quote="BrWhatsit" data-source="post: 316621" data-attributes="member: 22968">Hello,I've got a D40 that I have been using for about 7 years now. There are features I'd like to have from a more advanced camera, but that's not in the budget for the forseeable future, and this one serves for most things. But I'm having some trouble with color reproduction. I'm photographing hand-dyed yarns so that they can be sold online. Yarns with lots of different colors in them are fine; they require only minimal color correction in post-processing. But for yarns that are more monochromatic, I'm not getting accurate color.&nbsp; For instance, on a skein of yarn that is mostly blue with some purple areas, everything in the photo looks blue (what was purple looks dark blue) and it's not even a faithful representation of the actual blue. Similar results with a skein in the red-orange-yellow range; everything looks redder than it actually is. I've done a custom white balance and tried several different aperture settings.&nbsp; Am I missing something?&nbsp; Anyone else have this problem? How did you solve it? Thank you very much,Will</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BrWhatsit, post: 316621, member: 22968"] Hello, I've got a D40 that I have been using for about 7 years now. There are features I'd like to have from a more advanced camera, but that's not in the budget for the forseeable future, and this one serves for most things. But I'm having some trouble with color reproduction. I'm photographing hand-dyed yarns so that they can be sold online. Yarns with lots of different colors in them are fine; they require only minimal color correction in post-processing. But for yarns that are more monochromatic, I'm not getting accurate color. For instance, on a skein of yarn that is mostly blue with some purple areas, everything in the photo looks blue (what was purple looks dark blue) and it's not even a faithful representation of the actual blue. Similar results with a skein in the red-orange-yellow range; everything looks redder than it actually is. I've done a custom white balance and tried several different aperture settings. Am I missing something? Anyone else have this problem? How did you solve it? Thank you very much, Will [/QUOTE]

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