Hi all
I am not sure that this is the right forum to post this, so forgive me if I screwed up!
Sometimes pictures taken with my D70 exhibit a weird color shift/ change. It seems like it happens only when the color is really vivid - like the camera can't handle the saturated color.
Here are two examples - the one is of two traffic lights at a dirt track race, and the other is of a player in a rugby match - full sunlight. It has alos happened before with a bright yellow daisy, where the inside part of the flower had the same green blocks. Any Ideas??
These things are spoiling some of my few good shots!
Yeow! That's not right (no kidding ). Do you have any boost settings cranked (such as saturation or colour - not sure what all options are on the D70)? Other than that, I'd say it needs a recalibrated, or new sensor. Maybe someone else with a D70 might have a better answer though, so hang in for a bit before you run off to the repair centre.
Lowkey wrote:
Hi all
Sometimes pictures taken with my D70 exhibit a weird color shift/ change. It seems like it happens only when the color is really vivid - like the camera can't handle the saturated color.
Have you downloaded a custom curve into it? - or the previous owner (or is it new?)...
It could have a wacky custom curve in it that's making it over-saturate - I'm not near a manual right now but that's my guess. I can't remember if there's a "reset to default" option somewhere.
I have checked the settings, nothing funny or out of the ordinary.
The funny thing is that it only happens at random and not very often. It also SEEMS that it happens when I take a lot of pictures.
Normally I delete the pics after I have loaded them onto the PC, so the CF card is always clean. When I take a lot of pictures, maybe the camera is writing to a bad sector on the card?
I wonder if it could be the CF card? Anyway, I am going to try a reset to factory settings on the camera, format the card and take the battery out of the camera for 12 Hours
if I had to guess 2 things come to mind . The first is Sensor Blooming and the second is a DSP processing issue. Is this issue present in a Raw file or only jpegs? If it isn't in the raw then a likely issue is the DSP in the camera , if it is in the Raw it also could be the Raw Compression which is always on with the D70. My guess is this has to go back to Nikon
If you're shooting raw, which converter are you using? I've had Bibble do this same thing. It seems like a raw conversion issue to me, deapee's idea of rebooting sounds like a good idea.
If you're shooting RAW and have `hightlight clipping' turn on, you can see things like that.
If this is straight out of camera JPEG, it has to be some serious problem.
> When I take a lot of pictures, maybe the camera is writing to a bad sector on the card?
I doubt it. What you see here follows a source image pattern.
). Do you have any boost settings cranked (such as saturation or colour - not sure what all options are on the D70)? Other than that, I'd say it needs a recalibrated, or new sensor. Maybe someone else with a D70 might have a better answer though, so hang in for a bit before you run off to the repair centre.