Dull & milky tone to photos

[reynolw]

Having taken photos on my canon 10D and printed on a canon i950, the images are dull and have an overall milky tone to them. I have tried setting the camera to SRGB and Abode.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[kb244]

Most digital cameras, especially Digital SLrs require some degree of post-processing, especially if you shoot Adobe RGB. In Photoshop , try somehting as simple as Auto-Leveling, or Adding +15 to the contrast this generally gets rid of the gray 'film-cover' look. By messing with the curves and levels some more you can put some more 'punch' to the pictures when you go to print them, all my pictures come out rich on my i860, but I also do the leveling and contrast improvement like I mentioned above.

[jbradc]

Are the images that way when viewed on screen or only after being printed?

[kb244]

Thats good question jBradc said, if you said no, then your monitor may not be calibrated.

[reynolw]

I had the monitor calbrated by SCS approx. 8 months ago. All prints look as bad on the screen.

[jbradc]

How about lenses, does the problem exist with different lenses? If so I would say the camera needs repair.

[RichardtheSane]

Who are SCS?

[KennyG]

Most times this is simple colour management and we do not have enough information to sort it out. Don't rush and send your camera back or throw your printer in the trash just yet. Tell us exactly how you have the camera set up, what you are using to edit or display/print the images. Without more information all you will get is guesswork.

[jbradc]

Most times this is simple colour management and we do not have enough information to sort it out. Don't rush and send your camera back or throw your printer in the trash just yet...
Well it's not the printer because the images look "milky" on screen. Can you post an image for us to see? That would be a big help. Also, when did this start? Was it after some software or hardware change?

[ron chappel]

It's very likely a contrast setting 'problem'.DSLR's give quite a flat looking image straight from the camera,try boosting contrast as KB244 said above
It makes an enormous difference!It even makes an image look sharper.:)