red cast on monitor for B&W

In both Nikon Picture Project and Lightroom, I have a red cast to images that I

have converted to grayscale and adjusted in Lightroom AND images that were shot

in B&W mode on my D200. I cannot eliminate the red cast with any combination of

adjustments in Lightroom. Any help would be appreciated.

Well, my first guess would be that it's your monitor guns. Is your monitor hardware calibrated? If it is, it may be that it's calibrated for a much warmer light source than what you are actually viewing in, i.e. your monitor is at 5000K when your normal viewing conditions might be in noon light in the north, or roughly 7500K.

By the way, the image on your front page looks dead neutral to me.

Aaron,thanks for the reply. That's what I don't get. My front page image looks neutral. It was a b&w print scanned and uploaded. It looks fine on my monitor. When I take a picture in b&w mode on the D200, it looks neutral on the CAMERA monitor. But, when I import it into Lightroom or Nikon Picture project or Nikon view, the image has a red cast that I cannot eliminate.

Can you upload an image with this problem so we can help troubleshoot?

look like a calibration probleme somewhere...do you have your monitor calibrated with a

device? even if this as nothing to do with your problem, it could be a nice start.

Roger, here's a photo that looks OK in the Windows viewer but reddish in Lightroom.<div></div>

Well...that image appears neutral, so....it must be a Lightroom issue. Thanks to all for your input.

Just noticed something else. In Nikon Picture Project, while in Organize mode>Thumbnail and Photo, the thumbnail looks right (Neutral grays) while the photo looks reddish brown. Why?