topic Re: Canon EOS 6D has problem with yellow tint lcd in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

Canon EOS 6D has problem with yellow tint lcd

pcstar — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:16:38 GMT

Canon EOS 6D has problem with yellow tint lcd, i can't custom WB with lcd, when i see the image on lcd is warm but when i shooted and preview on macbook or iphone, this became blue than the lcd, what happened with my lcd, i bought it 2 week ago in Vietnam, i compared it with another 6D and my camera 6D is more yellow tint than another. Who can help me dicuss about it and how to fix theme? I feel sad now because it bought from my salary and i am a student in college! I search on Google and the image same my problem, my camera same with 5DSR.

Re: Canon EOS 6D has problem with yellow tint lcd

ebiggs1 — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 14:10:26 GMT

How much do you know about photography? Most likely is your WB is way off. Reset the camera to factory defaults. Go out side on a daylighted day at Noon. Set the WB to 'daylight' and try it again.

Re: Canon EOS 6D has problem with yellow tint lcd

pcstar — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 17:09:50 GMT

No no... i want to show off about my lcd. It's yellow than another. i used my 6D compare with another 6D. i copy one picture to 2 SD cards to compare one picture with same brightness on LCD. It show my LCD is yellow... I hear on google it's yellow/green tint cast....

Re: Canon EOS 6D has problem with yellow tint lcd

Peter — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 18:36:15 GMT

Is this really a big issue? I have D30, 1000D, 7D and 6D. No one has exactly the same colour temperature as the other. Especially not the old D30. Shoot in raw format and you don't need to think if the colour of your LCD matches the colour of your computer screen.

Re: Canon EOS 6D has problem with yellow tint lcd

pcstar — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 08:58:56 GMT

I want to ask... i have compare with three 6D other. But only my screen have problem with yellow. I use it to record movie. So i can't set K on clip

Re: Canon EOS 6D has problem with yellow tint lcd

Peter — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 09:58:26 GMT

Compare again, same settings and take a picture of the cameras together. Then ask Canon Servie center.

Re: Canon EOS 6D has problem with yellow tint lcd

TCampbell — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 14:07:23 GMT

You should not be adjusting the white balance (color temperature) of your camera based on the image you see on the LCD screen. You should not even adjust exposure based on the image you see on the LCD screen. The LCD review is only there to validate things such as composition, focus, subject didn't blink, etc. It's not there to analyze color or exposure.

Regardless of how the image appears on the LCD (which is not color calibrated) the image may (and probably will) look different on your computer screen (especially if you've color-calibrated your computer's display.)

If you want to know that you are getting accurate white balance, use a "gray card" -- a simple neutral gray surface. The card itself is a perfect neutral gray. You can take a photo of the card in the same lighting as your subject, then select "custom" white balance. It will ask you for a reference image and you select the image of the gray card. The camera will analyize the pixel colors (knowing that they should have equal amounts of red, green, and blue if they are truely gray) and determine if the pixels are tinted (favoring any particular color component). This allows the camera to detect that the light itself is creating a color cast and it can neutralize that color cast.

I prefer to shoot RAW. In RAW, the camera doesn't apply white-balance correction in the camera -- that's done on the computer. But I shoot a single frame with the gray card in it so I can use it as the neutral reference to color correct all the other images.

On my first DSLR (after shooting film for years) I noticed the images look rather underexposed, so I boosted the exposure. It turns out they weren't underexposed and I should have trusted my exposure settings and light meter and not the display. The dispay itself was simply set too dim.

Re: Canon EOS 6D has problem with yellow tint lcd

pcstar — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 20:38:24 GMT

Oh. I think my lcd have problem because it not same K temperature. I use 2 6D to compare with same setting... and then i copy it to macbook... macbook screen same with 6D not my... so i can't use my 6D to set K temperature. i want to set K to recording movie clip

Re: Canon EOS 6D has problem with yellow tint lcd

TTMartin — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 20:49:17 GMT

@pcstar wrote:
Oh. I think my lcd have problem because it not same K temperature. I use 2 6D to compare with same setting... and then i copy it to macbook... macbook screen same with 6D not my... so i can't use my 6D to set K temperature. i want to set K to recording movie clip

You can still set your camera's custom white balance with a grey card before you begin shooting video. See page 121 of the 6D instruction manual.

Re: Canon EOS 6D has problem with yellow tint lcd

alexandremayeur — Wed, 04 May 2016 20:54:27 GMT

Hi Pcstar,

I have the exact same probleme.
Have you found any solution ?
It's proabably a calibration of the body screen at the factory. But how to fixe it ?

Re: Canon EOS 6D has problem with yellow tint lcd

pcstar — Thu, 05 May 2016 19:06:21 GMT

I try to use my friend's iphone or ipad to take one picture by using EOS camera Remote or EOS camera Connect app to set K temperature or use my experience when five months using it, it maybe yellow than real temperature about 300-400 K temperature so you can set down 300-400 K

Re: Canon EOS 6D has problem with yellow tint lcd

alexandremayeur — Thu, 05 May 2016 19:11:58 GMT

Ohhh !!!

This is a solution, if you have the time to do it , but it does not fixe the pb ! 😄

Did you try ton contact canon , ask what they think about it ?

Re: Canon EOS 6D has problem with yellow tint lcd

pcstar — Fri, 06 May 2016 10:59:55 GMT

I think Canon 6D yellow tint issue happened with Serial start with number 3 (Ex:3XXXXXXXXX), because i have compared with Serial start with number 0,1,2, it's normal (monitor screen is more cyan than serial 3)

Re: Canon EOS 6D has problem with yellow tint lcd

alexandremayeur — Fri, 06 May 2016 13:15:20 GMT

Ah !

Thank you Pcstar.

So it's an official knowed problem !

I have work with Canon body for long time ! And have work with other body, and other brand.

10D , 20D, 7D , 5D, 5Dm3, 6D .... I can tell you that this yellow tint is the first time I see that on a Canon body ! Is not a simple small mistake for me. I don't ask the screen to be perfect, but there, it's worst than a cheap no-calibreted cell-phone (for the fidelity of the color I mean). You need at least a screen that show you if you are in good WB balance, and, most of all, if you are well exposed or not.

So If you tell me it's on all the 3XXXXXXXX serie .... Well , it's a shame ! I would have never buy that body if I had know that before...

Well , I have just check mine, it's a 2XXXXXXXXXXX serie ....

Re: Canon EOS 6D has problem with yellow tint lcd

pcstar — Sat, 07 May 2016 07:29:44 GMT

Oh, i'm sad when hearing about it, my friends using same 6D with me, but only my 6d had problem, i can't set true WB when recording movie so i have difficult when grading it 😞 , i want to change the screen but i don't have more money because i'm an student in university and i've many problem about the life

Re: Canon EOS 6D has problem with yellow tint lcd

TTMartin — Sat, 07 May 2016 12:17:51 GMT

You can set your camera's custom white balance with a grey card before you begin shooting video. See page 121 of the 6D instruction manual.

Re: Canon EOS 6D has problem with yellow tint lcd

pcstar — Sat, 07 May 2016 18:56:57 GMT

my camera 6D Screen have problem, it's displayed with wrong color Temperature, maybe it more yellow than another 6D of my friends, i usually shoot with Manual WB so i know how to work with manual WB, thank you!

Re: Canon EOS 6D has problem with yellow tint lcd

TTMartin — Sat, 07 May 2016 22:22:41 GMT

The above is about custom white balance using a gray card which is different than manual white balance which involves setting the color temperture in Kelvin.

Re: Canon EOS 6D has problem with yellow tint lcd

kvbarkley — Sun, 08 May 2016 19:42:09 GMT

And has nothing to do with calibrating the image on the LCD

Re: Canon EOS 6D has problem with yellow tint lcd

Waddizzle — Sun, 08 May 2016 20:12:07 GMT

Set your in camera WB to Auto. Turn off Automatic Lighting. Use Standard PictureStyle. Record your images as RAW. You can make all of those prevous adjustments in post-processing, provided you record your images in RAW format.