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40D - LCD Blue Tint??

 
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Oct 31, 2008 01:49 |  #1

hey guys. i hope this is an easy fix..i have a brand new 40D and my LCD has a slight blueish tint to it... on the computer the photos are fine, but how can i correct this tint? is this normal? is there a way to adjust it?

i've only found where to adjust the brightness but thats it..

any help is appreciated

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Dec 14, 2008 21:22 |  #2

I just purchased a 40D and noticed this as well. Does anyone have any answers to this? Did I receive a defect? All day today during a portrait shoot, I thought my WB was screwed up...when I got home and looked at the pictures, I found that the pictures were fine.


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Dec 19, 2008 10:30 |  #3

No reply on this eh?




  
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Dec 19, 2008 12:34 |  #4

The LCD is not intended as a critical colour management tool. It's not going to be very accurate at anything.

Use it as confirmation that you have exposed the shot, maybe got the exposure semi right and wait till you get home onto your colour managed PC.


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Dec 19, 2008 12:37 as a reply to  @ Lowner's post |  #5

I believe that the LCD screen does have a slight "bluish" hue to it. I don't really look at the picture much anyways. The histogram is generally more useful. The LCD is handy to make sure you don't have any camera or subject shake(to a certain degree) but I don't really pay attention to the colors on it since I shoot RAW and have to make some adjustments anyway.


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Dec 19, 2008 13:09 |  #6

It's normal for the 40D


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stop chimping and you'll be fine ;)


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Dec 20, 2008 00:07 |  #8

If you looked at the full Canon dSLR lineup from the back, all at the same time, you would find that few of them are every totally neutral! Even the beloved 1Dx that so many pay small fortunes for!

Don't obsess about LCD accuracy...if you got one that was perfectly neutral, the next newer model that you lust for will quickly make you dissatisfied with the old one's features and covet the new one!


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Dec 22, 2008 19:18 |  #9

I just solved my problem with the LCD!!! I had to...

box up my 40D and exchanged it for the 50D....

Viola...problem solved.


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Dec 22, 2008 19:39 |  #10

^ LOL

40D is bluish under certain light conditions, it's yellowish under others and purplish if you're amongst a lot of green and foliage

Even worse than the LCD is the Digic III image review system which displays very low resolution thumbnails during image review which are soft as crap


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