Canon 400D color contrast

kira7812 · 6th August 2007

Dear all,

I would like to ask if any of you notice or encountered that the color of photos taken with Canon 400D looks abit flat and not as vibrant as photos taken with nikon d80(my friend's cam). FYI i'm using canon 17-85mm lens.
Not sure if i left out some settings or impt pts to take note. Pls feel free to drop your comments or opinion.
Thanks.

FilterFunk · 6th August 2007

taken your pics with Adobe RGB maybe?

calebk · 7th August 2007

Originally Posted by kira7812

Dear all,

I would like to ask if any of you notice or encountered that the color of photos taken with Canon 400D looks abit flat and not as vibrant as photos taken with nikon d80(my friend's cam). FYI i'm using canon 17-85mm lens.
Not sure if i left out some settings or impt pts to take note. Pls feel free to drop your comments or opinion.
Thanks.

Possibly because your friend used vivid colours, or loaded a custom curve. You cannot compare JPEGs like that because different cameras, image processing engines and sensors will all produce images of different characteristic curves.

broccoli · 7th August 2007

you can make your picture as vibrant as your friend's cam....custom function, up the settings...you need to compare apple to apple...

calebk · 7th August 2007

Originally Posted by broccoli

you can make your picture as vibrant as your friend's cam....custom function, up the settings...you need to compare apple to apple...

Not custom function. It's under Picture Style.

Get to it through the menus, what you can do is scroll down to one of the user defined settings, then press "jump" to fine tune the settings of that user defined custom function. You can up the saturation.

zj2000 · 7th August 2007

Originally Posted by kira7812

Dear all,

I would like to ask if any of you notice or encountered that the color of photos taken with Canon 400D looks abit flat and not as vibrant as photos taken with nikon d80(my friend's cam). FYI i'm using canon 17-85mm lens.
Not sure if i left out some settings or impt pts to take note. Pls feel free to drop your comments or opinion.
Thanks.

nikon colors are more saturated at the default setting compared to canon at it's default....
try this:

saturation : +2
contrast: -1

zj2000 · 7th August 2007

Originally Posted by FilterFunk

taken your pics with Adobe RGB maybe?

shooting in adobe RGB is generally not recommended unless you intend to do alot of post prosessing and even then one would save the jpg after PP in sRBG.... saving in adobe RBG will give you even more washed out colors when viewed using a typical image browser.....

Stoned · 7th August 2007

As many have mentioned it's quite hard to compare like that. Anyhow, using photoshop or another suitable PP software, you can usually get colours to look the same no matter which camera they came out from with a little bit of skill involved.

If you don't wish to process your image, you can try fiddling with the picture styles or in-camera saturation/contrast/sharpness settings to get your desired output. Be aware though that too much in-camera sharpening can lead to some pretty bad jpeg artifacts, so try not to overdo it on the in-camera tweaking.

Kongo · 7th August 2007

First of all, Does the pics you are comparing with taken in the same scene at same exposure?

Lighting conditions makes a lot of diff too

SpeakUp · 8th August 2007

lens play the big factor

zj2000 · 8th August 2007

lens play a minor factor....

siongsing · 8th August 2007

Any expert tweak their picture style's settings? Can share their information on that?
Maybe newbie like me can learn from that.

zj2000 · 8th August 2007

Originally Posted by siongsing

Any expert tweak their picture style's settings? Can share their information on that?
Maybe newbie like me can learn from that.

I'm not an expert but like I said saturation +2 contrast -1 or 0

siongsing · 8th August 2007

Originally Posted by zj2000

I'm not an expert but like I said saturation +2 contrast -1 or 0

all right...thx i will try hehe

Benchmarc · 9th August 2007

Hey, i do believe lens play a part, but honestly not 100% on that.
That said, http://forums.clubsnap.org/showthread.php?t=301909
Shot that with a 400D, using default standard picture style settings. I though it was pretty gd considering the only thing i did to that pic was compress from RAW to JPG

6th August 2007	#1
kira7812 Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 70	Canon 400D color contrast Dear all, I would like to ask if any of you notice or encountered that the color of photos taken with Canon 400D looks abit flat and not as vibrant as photos taken with nikon d80(my friend's cam). FYI i'm using canon 17-85mm lens. Not sure if i left out some settings or impt pts to take note. Pls feel free to drop your comments or opinion. Thanks.

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FilterFunk Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: 卧龙岗 Posts: 2,658	Re: Canon 400D color contrast taken your pics with Adobe RGB maybe?

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broccoli Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 544	Re: Canon 400D color contrast you can make your picture as vibrant as your friend's cam....custom function, up the settings...you need to compare apple to apple...

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Stoned Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Changi Posts: 4,376	Re: Canon 400D color contrast As many have mentioned it's quite hard to compare like that. Anyhow, using photoshop or another suitable PP software, you can usually get colours to look the same no matter which camera they came out from with a little bit of skill involved. If you don't wish to process your image, you can try fiddling with the picture styles or in-camera saturation/contrast/sharpness settings to get your desired output. Be aware though that too much in-camera sharpening can lead to some pretty bad jpeg artifacts, so try not to overdo it on the in-camera tweaking. __________________ My Personal Folio (of random events and things)

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Kongo Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 3,256	Re: Canon 400D color contrast First of all, Does the pics you are comparing with taken in the same scene at same exposure? Lighting conditions makes a lot of diff too

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SpeakUp Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 74	Re: Canon 400D color contrast lens play the big factor

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zj2000 Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,457	Re: Canon 400D color contrast lens play a minor factor....

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siongsing Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 78	Re: Canon 400D color contrast Any expert tweak their picture style's settings? Can share their information on that? Maybe newbie like me can learn from that. __________________ My Humble-Loft

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Benchmarc Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 280	Re: Canon 400D color contrast Hey, i do believe lens play a part, but honestly not 100% on that. That said, http://forums.clubsnap.org/showthread.php?t=301909 Shot that with a 400D, using default standard picture style settings. I though it was pretty gd considering the only thing i did to that pic was compress from RAW to JPG