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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · D800 with green tint LCD, any fix yet?


Hi everyone! I received my D800 last thursday. Everything was fine expect I got the infamous green tint LCD issue.
The actual jpg and raw files have the correct white balance but the LCD display is always greenish on all WB setting. I can change the custom WB / picture style to fix the LCD preview but then the actual jpg and raw will get affected.
Is there any fix yet?
May 21, 2012 at 08:24 AM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · D800 with green tint LCD, any fix yet?


Put on purple sunglasses
May 21, 2012 at 08:25 AM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · D800 with green tint LCD, any fix yet?


You mean magenta sunglasses


May 21, 2012 at 08:26 AM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · D800 with green tint LCD, any fix yet?


yes! lol
May 21, 2012 at 08:32 AM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · D800 with green tint LCD, any fix yet?


Nikon has said there is no issue with the LCD. They claim the LCD is more acuarate yet does display a warmer rendition then previous bodies.


May 21, 2012 at 08:39 AM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · D800 with green tint LCD, any fix yet?


Yes, I know Nikon won't fix it. I have read the flicker thread regarding the same issue.
The problem is what's on LCD is different then those on the monitor. If they are both greenish it's an easy fix, but they are not even close...

From other owner:
May 21, 2012 at 08:50 AM
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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · D800 with green tint LCD, any fix yet?


I don't see no green tint.

Unless not all D800 are equal under the sun.

My serial number is 80018**. What is your serial number?

I also dislike using LV as I am used to steady the camera on the eye brow bone resting on the rubber eye cup. The only time I use a tripod is when the bl... lens is too heavy.
May 21, 2012 at 09:53 AM
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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · D800 with green tint LCD, any fix yet?


My serial is 8011XXX. As I google more info it seems not all D800 were affected.
I have tired outdoor, indoor, AWB, daylight WB...all with the same result - green tint on the LCD, yet perfectly WB on monitor.


May 21, 2012 at 10:18 AM
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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · D800 with green tint LCD, any fix yet?


There is an video about the green screen:
http://www.learningdslrvideo.com/nikon-d800-greenish-lcd-tint/

And the thread about the green screen:
http://nikonrumors.com/2012/04/21/nikon-claims-that-the-greenish-d4d800-lcd-screen-is-more-accurate-than-the-d3sd700.aspx/
May 21, 2012 at 10:27 AM
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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · D800 with green tint LCD, any fix yet?


Wow, that sample photo above looks horrible



May 21, 2012 at 05:03 PM
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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · D800 with green tint LCD, any fix yet?


Wow. It looks like D800's LCD got cross-processed.

http://nikonrumors.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Nikon-D800-green-cast-LCD-screen.jpg
May 21, 2012 at 05:22 PM
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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · D800 with green tint LCD, any fix yet?


Set your in camera jpeg settings to B&W and all the green will go away.


May 22, 2012 at 03:32 AM
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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · D800 with green tint LCD, any fix yet?


VinnieJ wrote:
Set your in camera jpeg settings to B&W and all the green will go away.

MAYBE its still early for me, but is this a minor stroke of genius? if someone did this, wouldnt that POSSIBLY define whether this is a hardware or software problem?

in other words, if you have a B&W jpeg, wouldnt that indicate its a hardware/screen problem with no firmware fix on the horizon?

i remember this was kinda like how people tested out their imac monitors when there was a yellow tint going around, except they used different black,white, gray schemes


May 22, 2012 at 08:51 AM
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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · D800 with green tint LCD, any fix yet?


Most likely a hardware problem or something that's unfixable by frameware since not all of us are getting the problem. If Nikon fix the green LCD with a frameware it might unfix those with no problem.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wingmanzero/6880407002/
May 22, 2012 at 09:30 AM
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You're a lucky winner of the D800 Hulk-Edition.

This reminds me of the early batches of the Canon 5D. Like Nikon, Canon didn't confirm it. But later batch of 5Ds no longer have the green tint. Hmm....
May 22, 2012 at 01:04 PM
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mshi wrote:
Wow. It looks like D800's LCD got cross-processed.

http://nikonrumors.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Nikon-D800-green-cast-LCD-screen.jpg

? Am I missing something here? On my calibrated monitor, it's the D3's screen on the right that looks sickly, not the D800's. (Not true for the image above, which is Kermit-the-frog green.)
May 22, 2012 at 05:20 PM
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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · D800 with green tint LCD, any fix yet?


The problem is the LCD doesn't match the actual jpeg file it produces. I end up getting 2 different WB picture no matter how I change the custom WB or the picture style to correct the LCD color.
Raw is unaffected but a $3k camera should display what I actually got not trying to trick me


May 22, 2012 at 09:30 PM
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p.1 #18 · p.1 #18 · D800 with green tint LCD, any fix yet?


Ching wrote:
The problem is the LCD doesn't match the actual jpeg file it produces. I end up getting 2 different WB picture no matter how I change the custom WB or the picture style to correct the LCD color.
Raw is unaffected but a $3k camera should display what I actually got not trying to trick me


Yeah, this really annoys me too. I am almost planning to upgrade my Canon 5DII (which has a fairly accurate screen) to the D800. But Nikon has form with inaccurate LCD screens: my old D3000 completely overcooked the LCD image, I had to post-process the JPG files to get back that nicely saturated and contrast-heavy look I already thought I secured.

I hope future LCD screens are user-programmable, like PC monitors. Meaning we can set the RGB colour balance, contrast and temperature to taste.
May 27, 2012 at 01:49 PM
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p.1 #19 · p.1 #19 · D800 with green tint LCD, any fix yet?


Somebody posted this on Flickr....YMMV

www.nikonusa.com/fileuploads/Digitutor/D800/index.html

click on other shooting options

drop down to monitor HUE [ how to]


May 27, 2012 at 02:10 PM
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p.1 #20 · p.1 #20 · D800 with green tint LCD, any fix yet?


James Burden wrote:
Somebody posted this on Flickr....YMMV

www.nikonusa.com/fileuploads/Digitutor/D800/index.html

click on other shooting options

drop down to monitor HUE [ how to]


That's excellent news...thanks for posting.
May 27, 2012 at 04:21 PM
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