color washout, not vivid colors: I have a new D7100 Nikon (also own a WZ8800, D90, D7000, P900) . The new camera does very well other than the colors are not vivid. I have looked...

napa1

I have a new D7100 Nikon (also own a WZ8800, D90, D7000, P900) . The new camera does very well other than the colors are not vivid. I have looked through the menu trying various things to no avail. I am able to correct the color tones and saturation in my Photoshop and have a quality photo after this change. Any ideas????
Bill the NAPA Man

Bultaco Loc: Aiken, SC

I suggest post a photo, click the store original box.

suntouched Loc: Sierra Vista AZ

Maybe you could try bracketing to see which exposure gives you the best color.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Posting and storing an example is the single most effective method to communicate your issue.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Until you post an example with exif available to view, we can only guess. Try re-setting to original specs in case you inadvertently changed a setting (examples: exposure compensation so it now over-exposes, a style mode, white balance, in-camera saturation slider etc)

Bob Mevis Loc: Plymouth, Indiana

I had a Nikon D70s years ago that had that problem. I was unable to boost the colors in camera. I bought a D500 last spring. I wasn't happy with the default setting so I went into the settings under the camera icon and, went to the picture setting and chose the vivid option. It worked wonders. It boosts the colors but doesn't over cook them.

Unfortunately, I am partially color blind. I can see primary colors but, it comes to different shades of green and brown, I start running into trouble. Purple, forget it, it just looks like dark blue to me. That's why you'll very seldom see me post a pic. What looks good to me, may not look good to other people.

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

napa1 wrote:

I have a new D7100 Nikon (also own a WZ8800, D90, D7000, P900) . The new camera does very well other than the colors are not vivid. I have looked through the menu trying various things to no avail. I am able to correct the color tones and saturation in my Photoshop and have a quality photo after this change. Any ideas????
Bill the NAPA Man

How do you have your Picture Control set?

DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area

napa1 wrote:

I have a new D7100 Nikon (also own a WZ8800, D90, D7000, P900) . The new camera does very well other than the colors are not vivid. I have looked through the menu trying various things to no avail. I am able to correct the color tones and saturation in my Photoshop and have a quality photo after this change. Any ideas????
Bill the NAPA Man

Are you shooting JPG or RAW files? RAW will initially look washed out until they are post-processed.

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Shoot RAW. Much better to work with in post processing.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

You are better off increasing the saturation in PS with control over how much than trying to increase it in the camera where it may end up too saturated and then you can't bring it back. That's assuming shooting JPEGS. If you shoot RAW, you will have to do it in post processing.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Try this.

Gort55 Loc: Northern Colorado

napa1 wrote:

I have a new D7100 Nikon (also own a WZ8800, D90, D7000, P900) . The new camera does very well other than the colors are not vivid. I have looked through the menu trying various things to no avail. I am able to correct the color tones and saturation in my Photoshop and have a quality photo after this change. Any ideas????
Bill the NAPA Man

I was always unhappy with my Nikon’s shots straight out of the camera until I followed the advice on settings by that guy nobody seems to like — Ken Rockwell.

fetzler Loc: North West PA

jerryc41 wrote:

Try this.

this is your answer. If you shot RAW files you can change the the color to Standard, Vivid or whatever in Nikon's Capture NX-D

camerapapi Loc: Miami, Fl.

If you still keep your D7000 it has to be that you are satisfied with the quality of the images it produces. The D7100 is not different. If you use the same lens with both cameras, lets say in STANDARD color mode the images should be identical. If you see changes again with your D7100 for sure you have a setting wrong.

You can always increase saturation of colors with your editor but that is something you will not have to do often. VIVID colors are easily set in camera IF shooting JPEG files. RAW data is different and the colors could not be their best till the data is processed.
You have not posted an image so it is very hard to guess what is exactly what you are doing wrong.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

If you like what the D7000 gives you, then set your D7100 the same way. I start with the Landscape choice and tweak it from there on my D7000 and D7200. If Neutral is selected for JPEG's, then they will come out flat and you have to do all your tweaking in PP.