Canon 10D to red?????

[Carlos_Voss]

Hello everyone,
I am using a canon 10D and my images are coming out to red. I have played around with my white balances, but still I am getting to much red. Is there some type of mode to turn down the reds in the camera? I am finding this to be very frustrating. Any suggestions????

[James_Buttons]

We could use a little more info:

1) Are you using Jpeg or Raw?

2) Is the camera new? Or did this just start happening?

3) Can you see the excessive red in the LCD?

4) If RAW, what conversion software are you using?

5) Are you viewing these on a color-managed monitor/system?

6) Are you using Auto White Balance?

7) Have you tried setting the white balance and using custom? Does it still show too much red?

8) Have you tried doing a complete reset on the camera (pulling the battery, etc)?

9) Have you tried printing one of the images to see if it is also too red?

10) What environement are you shooting in: studio, sun, flourescent, flash? Does it make any difference?

Having said all of this, the 1st 10D I purchased had every picture too yellow. I exchanged the camera for a new one, problem solved.

[Carlos_Voss]

I am using Jpeg format. I have had the camera for about 4 months, and it just seems to get more red as I use it more and more. I cannot see the red in the LCD. I am viewing them on a color managed monitor. I am customizing my white balances not using auto, but it's still to red. I have tried pulling out the batt. and reseting but no luck. When I print it seems as if the images are to red. I shoot in the sun alot, and also inside for weddings. Thanks for the response.

[MichaelMaibaum]

My 10D is more magenta than my 1Ds - they just differ a little bit in how they capture colour and to my eyes my 10D is a little too warm and the 1Ds a little cool - I want somewhere in the middle.

So I simply set up custom camera calibration settings in Adobe Camera RAW to tailor the colour to the way I like it. If you are talking about subtle changes in tone that may be what you want - though you'd have to switch to shooting in RAW. I believe a similar effect can be achieved by uplading a custom tone curve (like the de-green one available for the 1Ds on http://visual-vacations.com/Photogra...one_curve.htm)


If you are talking about drastic colour shifts then this advice may not apply of course.

cheers

Michael

[James_Buttons]

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I am using Jpeg format. I have had the camera for about 4 months, and it just seems to get more red as I use it more and more.

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I have never used jpeg on my 10D. I don't have any additional suggestions for you other than to take a shot of a known color chart and take another shot in a month or two and then compare the two, see if the camera really is changing. Whenever I buy a new camera that's the 1st thing I do is take a series of shots with a known repeatable source that way if I ever think my camera is degrading, I can compare images. I have done this several times with my 10D and recently with my 1DM2 and in each case, it was just my imagination..nothing had changed.

If you wanted to shoot RAW and had Photoshop CS, you could try Tom For's javascript for automating Bruce Fraser's method for creating a custom setting to use with ACR for your camera. The thread is under the "RAW photo processing" section and is called "Calibrating ACR" Many people, including me, have had excellent results with this method. But again you would need to shoot RAW to try this. It's a long thread and you need to read the entire thread for a complete understanding.

You could try calling Canon, but without a quantifiable problem, I don't know if they could/would help you.

Good luck.