Victor, you\'ll want to create a custom \"Neutral\" picture profile for yourself. I\'ve played around with these a lot and I\'m extremely happy with the colour-accuracy and tonal quality of my current settings (which I find notably more pleasing than any of the D2X profiles, which I almost never use):
Also, above ISO 1000 the issue that causes the greatest grief on the D700 (and all the Nikon DSLRs for that matter) is the colour cast that it gives skin-tones. As the ISO on the camera rises, the colour of people\'s skin turns a sickly yellow colour - which makes the photos look \'wrong\'. The trick here is to adjust the Hue setting in your D700 to the left as you increase the ISO.
I modify the \"Hue\" setting, moving it left of centre as the ISO increases (i.e. ISO 1000-1250: Hue -1; ISO 1600-2500: Hue -2; ISO 3200-25600: Hue -3) this goes a long way towards keeping skin tones looking natural.
Also, here\'s an example of what I\'m talking about with the Hue setting at higher ISOs (if you\'ll excuse my ugly mug at 17mm as the subject ) these were both shot at ISO 3200, this one with the hue set at 0:
and this one with the hue set at -3:
If, even with this custom neutral profile at low ISOs, you\'re still finding the skin colours to be too yellow - try adjust the Hue to -1 even at low ISOs and see if that suits.
Hope that helps.
Dec 11, 2008 at 09:52 PM
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) these were both shot at ISO 3200, this one with the hue set at 0:
