After figuring out that the main reason for the weird skin tones I tend to get was due to the inaccurate Auto White Balance, I decided to do a shoot based purely on manual White Balance settings where I keyed in manually the colour temperature in Kelvins. Auto White Balance seems to be rather inaccurate quite frequently and darker skin asians tend to have too much of a reddish hue, not so much a problem with fairer skin though. I took some trial pictures in Picture Control D2X Mode 1 with my Nikon 85mm F1.8 AF-D as usual, to see how skin tones fair. I would say that it does look less reddish indeed. Whether that is desirable would be up to individuals but to me the pictures do look more neutral in my humble opinion.
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I am using D700. just buying nikon 85mm 1.4, however after use found disappointed with the lens, as i have make every attempt to make sharp focus. the focus point is set to eye, no recompose done. speed is at minimal of 1/160. However careful I did, the result is not 100% of every photo sharp. Have asked my friend to try, result still similar. Get the lens to Nikon services center. At first they say no problem,later say some problem and they fixed it. but when returned still same problem. As I see you are using the similar gear, please advise what is the cause of this problem? is it the lens not compatible with D700? or other problem?
Hi! I find that the D700 has excellect AF performance, and it is very accurate in most cases. Did you try to AF in challenging situations, like high contrast or low light? After some customised micro AF adjustments done in camera with my Nikon 85mm F1.8(Not the F1.4 like yours), I am having tack sharp pictures a lot of the time. Are you having problems with other lens too? If yes it maybe user error or camera AF is out. If its only that lens then maybe you need to have that lens checked. Did you do your micro adjustments in camera with the AF? It can be tweaked to correct front or back focus problems. Hope that helps.
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