can a D600 owner confirm yellow tint on flash head please

<p>I just noticed this now as I dont use the built in flash since I have other speedlights and while wiping down the camera (sweat build up from weddings) I hit the flash button and thought how weird it was the flash head is yellow tinted. can a D600 confirm if this is the way your flash head is please?<br>

my speedlights all look white compared to the D600 flash head so I find it weird.</p>

<p>thank you.</p>

<p>My built in flash looks white but they maybe just a tinge of yellow.</p><div></div>

<p>I can clearly see the flash has a yellow tint in your picture. compare it to the tamron and nikon logo and youll quickly see. or just place a piece of white a4 paper and youll immediately notice it. its clearly not white like the nikon speedlights.</p>

<p>My early D600 appears a little more yellow than the pic above. Have not noticed any abnormal look to the few completely flashed images I have taken, or the more frequent fill shots.</p>

<p>Flash on the D800 looks the same.</p>

<p>I have some older (SB-25) Nikon flash that have a yellow tinge, and others do not. I have to guess that the plastic yellowed with use. There's also a chance that Nikon made the plastic on your camera deliberately a bit yellow. That would help warm up the photo vs. the often sterile look of pure flash. Just a guess. Looking closely at my D7100 on board flash, I definitely see a yellow tint. The D600 and D7100 may share many parts. I haven't noticed that tint before, but then again when doing a wedding I never use the pop-up because my big f2.8 lenses cause a shadow. I can't imagine using the pop up in a wedding, and have a pair of SB-900 flash for that. My guess is the tint is deliberate, and it's sort of a built in warming filter. Remember that both the D7100 and D600 are considered consumer use cameras, not pro. It would make sense Nikon might try to make things easier on the people the cameras are aimed at. My SB-900 flash have no yellow tint, and these are obviously aimed at the pro market.</p>

<p>Kent in SD</p>

<p>Just to be awkward, I'd say mine is white in the actual flash itself, but the surround is yellow, which may make it look in some lights like the whole thing has a yellow tint.<br>

I'd guess ( a bit like Kent says ) that the surround is yellow on purpose to slightly soften the light off-axis. Or is that assuming too much effort in design just for a flash ??</p>

<p>Some flashes have the xenon tube coated in a yellow dye....some have the front fresnel plastic dyed yellow....and it sounds like some have a tinted main reflector....</p>

<p>As long as the output is within some ISO colour guideline and it matches the Lightning Bolt WB, I'd not worry.</p>

<p>I also suspect that, however the tint is made, ALL Nikon flashes, pop-up or SB-***, consumer or pro, have the same colour.</p>

<p>NB. Just to add to the last bit, in case someone's being tricksy..:-)</p>

 

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<p>have the same colour....(please add the words) LIGHT OUTPUT!<br>

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<p>They may appear different when you look at them, but the transmitted light is the same WB.<br>

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I have been known to use a pop-up at a wedding, dialled in to as low as it will go in Manual Power for a small catch light....with no risk of a nose shadow that an off-camera or hot shoe mounted flash can make. The pop-up is the closest thing to an axial flash short of a ring-flash.<br>

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Anyway, the OP specifically said he used other speedlights and didn't use the pop-up at the wedding, only on cleaning the soggy bits after a stressy job did he notice the tint.</p>

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