I have recently purchased a Nikon D70S camera. I have been using an Olympus digital camera, model C4040. I am trying to learn how to use all the settings of the Nikon.

I took the Nikon out of the box, charged the battery, set the date, and took some photos around the house. All the settings are at their default, which means most things are sit on automatic. Everything works fine and I really like the camera except for one thing.

One of the photos I took was of my white Jeep. The Jeep pictures make the paint color look yellowish and not white. The Olympus camera did not do this. I do have a UV filter on the Nikon lens that the Olympus did not have.

Any ideas why the Nikon makes the white paint look yellowish?

 

I gather you're shooting JPEG mode and not RAW?

If so, check your white balance and see if you have auto white balance on. If you're shooting during the day the auto white balance works great, but it struggles at night with different light conditions (in which case it makes a lot of sense to shoot RAW if you aren't doing so already, so you can custom adjust the white balance after the fact).

EDIT: if it's not auto white balance, post a copy of the picture. Do not "save for web" if you're using photoshop, use "save as". That way we can pick the settings (EXIF data) off of the photo to look at what is going on to troubleshoot this.

EDIT2: title changed so it's camera specific and doesn't confuse people looking on the pulse thinking it's about a future MINI owner with a color combination question.

 

Thanks for the reply. I put a copy of the picture I took yesterday in my gallery. I hope you can access the information you want.

The camera was set in the auto mode, which includes auto white balance. The only thing I can see that was not in auto was the ISO setting, which was on 200.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. The other photos I've taken (and I haven't taken that many yet) appear fine. It's just the white is off in this one...

 

Here's what I pulled off the image

Nikon D70s, 18-70mm F/3.5-4.5 @ 44mm
Digital Vari-Program: Auto
Meter: Multi Pattern
1/320 sed - F/9
Exposure Comp: 0 EV
ISO 200
White Balance: Auto
AF Mode: AF-S
Color Mode: Mode 1a (sRGB)
Tone Comp: Auto
Hue Adjustment: 0 degrees
Saturation: normal
Sharpening Auto
Noise Reduction Off


I would guess might be the auto tone compensation, but I could be wrong on that. Either that or the auto white balance struggling.

Shooting RAW and custom editing the white balance would address this problem, and you would be shooting in a lossless file format (i.e. the file doesn't get smaller each time you save it, unlike jpegs which drop information from the file with each additional save).

 

Had this been shot with RAW, it would have been a 2 second fix. Since it was in JPEG, I used Photoshop and adjusted the Color Levels, and I got this. (Shadows, Midtones, Highlights) I like to start with the default Midtones, then adjust highlights then shadows.

I think it's pretty close. Took me about 5 minutes. Essentially you can see the original picture has too much cyan--seems a little "green".

I tend to make my images on the warmer rather than cooler side.

Color Adjusted--slight contrast reduction


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Octane and DiD,

Thanks for the replys. I guess if I want the shots I take to look the way I want, I will have to start processing them with some software.

I haven't tried the Raw format yet.

I know the software that came with the camera will do some editing, but probably not as much as Photo Shop.