Bought my first DSLR

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Been thinking of one for ages but never any spare cash. Still on a very tight budget so I bought a Nikon D100 with 2 lenses from MXV.
A bit concerned that it wasn't a good choice as disappointed with the results I'm getting so far. Colours seem flat and pics cold and dead. Have tried using WB compensation to warm them up a bit which does seem to help but still not overjoyed. Been through all the menus and can see no problems with camera settings.
Anyone still using this camera, and what do you think? -
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Marc
 
If your still doubting whether or not the settings are correct you could try a manufacturers reset.

Which should be within the menus and will reset your camera to how it was when it came out the factory.
 
If I remember correctly the D100 was Nikon's first generation consumer DSLR and probably gives similar results as I got from my Canon D60 of the same era,I found that I had to be very careful with exposure and also work harder on the post processing but carefully used I still got some good results.
Persevere with D100
 
I'm not familiar with the menu system of the D100 but a general comment when comparign my Canon pics with others using Nikon (D80 and D200) was that the olours in the Canon software seem to be a bit more vivid and bright, Nikon in comparison were subdued and dull. Whether the Nikon metering is more accurate i'm not going to debate, but to my eyes they can be a bit lifeless.

You could try boosting the saturation a little in p'shop and maybe adding a little unsharp mask ?
 
It would easier if you posted an example, do you shoot raw or jpg ? and what software do you use for processing. - my next door neighbour uses one and he is constantly producing competition winning photos with it.
 
Thanks guys, I only have an old version of elements (3) - will play some more and see if I can improve things.
I did wonder if there's maybe an update for the software in the camera available.
At the moment I'm finding I prefer the results I was getting before, with my little Olympus Camedia 765, or scanning in prints from film.
 
the d100 creates very contrasty photos which is good in some respects and bad in others, personally i like it but watch out for the highlights as they've always had a habit of blowing those out

apart from that try not to shoot in raw unless you need to or have the time because it's a very slow camera.
 
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