Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Use a custom curve in your D70/D200: http://fotogenetic.dearingfilm.com/index.html Cheers Jayanand Govindaraj Chennai, India Scott McLoughlin wrote: > I've been shooting with a D70 and now a D200. > > I find that skin tones with film have a certain opaque > quality, and a lean toward beige, that I like. I've never > personally shot Kodachrome, but as a viewer, I see > these qualities playing out in force. > > By comparison, my DSLRs seem to render skin tones > with a kind of transparency and pinkness. > > So I find myself in color correction mode quite frequently, > tweaking skin tones toward yellow on the color cube (I use > PWP). > > Any clue as to the causes of this discrepancy? I don't mean > to start a debate. The DSLR may well be more "true to life" > for all I know. But I don't like it. > > Might this be a quality unique to Nikon DSLRs? > > Even better, any ideas how I might do something in camera > so that I'm not goofing with color correction all the time? > > Thanks. > > Scott >