Red

i have the d800, and my wife, the d7000 (which is a great camera)
one thing though...in photographing reds we find that the reds tend to look orangy.....can't seem to get the correct reds, for example when photographing roses......
any suggestions?

Are you seeing this on your computer? Or on the LCD screen on your camera?

thanks, ....even on lcd..just not quite the rich red on the roses eg. always tends a little to the orange...

it's the same on my wife's d7000

Color correction, white balance correction, done in post processing. It's about the only solution I know about. But some flowers are very difficult to match. Nature is more precise than camera sensors.

yanco said:

i have the d800, and my wife, the d7000 (which is a great camera)
one thing though...in photographing reds we find that the reds tend to look orangy.....can't seem to get the correct reds, for example when photographing roses......
any suggestions?

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I've experienced this when I was using Nikon NX with my D7000.

I haven't been getting any over saturated reds with my D800 which was a big surprise and relief. Here is a recent sample of a rose taken with my D800E which didn't gave me any trouble with reds.

thanks marcel...i figured that might be the case

thanks gqtuazon....guess the roses i was trying to capture were just a difficult color to reproduce...and i do admit that the d800 is better than the d700 in this regard.....

I have been having great luck too with my D800

Do you have your picture control set to Vivid or normal?