Sadness - green screen

[FastFashnReloaded]

I've worked in video for a while (digital), and with film cameras. I bought my first DSLR about a month ago and have been, in the main, enjoying it.

However, I found out this weekend while at Gencon (a sci-fi gaming con) that the camera won't capture all shades of green. I mean, it simply won't! I was trying to take a picture of a "Jedi" with a green lightsabre, and also a girl with bluish/purple makeup, and in both cases the colors with manual or auto while balance were simply wrong.

Also a yellow Pikachu kept coming out ... muted is the best term.

Is it that the sensors just won't get some shades of blue/green correct? If so, that's very upsetting. Green or blue screen is ok for video, we know that the camera won't recognize a particular shade of green, and that's ok. It's useful. However, it isn't really acceptable in still photography.

[lct]

Difficult to say without viewing your pics, Dana.
Depends upon the camera and the lens, the raw converter if any, also the way you set white balance, monitor calibration and so on.
Now all cameras have not the same colour rendition of course.
For instance, the greens of my Sony DSC-V1 are generally wrong, those of my Nikon D70 lack gradation and those of my Digilux 1 are a bit too satured.
A good way to check if your cam is right is to calibrate your monitor, shoot raw and set white balance with a grey card.
You can also try a little prog named 'iCorrect' that i use much personally:
http://www.pictocolor.com/icorrect/default.htm

[albertwang]

Tor, Tor!!! Okay, it's time to upgrade to the Sony DSC-V3 if you know what I mean.