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    I have had a reddish tint on photos taken from my digicam the last few years. Originally I thought that it was a problem with the camera itself, but then I’ve seen that on my laptop, they look fine. My next suspicion was the graphics viewing program, but three different programs (Windows Picture and Fax, MS Office Photo Manager, and Photofiltre) all display the same photo fine on my laptop, but all show the same photo with a reddish tint on my desktop monitor.

    I did a right-click on the desktop and changed the resolution (from 800x600 to 1024x780 or whatever) and that made no difference. The color is set to 32 (highest).

    I found a group of buttons at the bottom of the monitor (Sony Trinitron Multiscan 200ES) and pressed the one that said “Reset,” but alas no such luck.

    It really does take time to use an editing program to change the color settings on these things photo by photo, so I’m hoping that I can figure out some way to tinker with the monitor. Any ideas?

    EDIT: Just to the right of the "reset" button is one that is marked "Color." I tinkered around with all three variables that it gave me, but the reddish tint remains.
     
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    Try adjusting the colour balance of the monitor using the buttons at the base of the screen for the OSD.

    You chose reset - that resets the monitor to the default factory settings. You need the colour tab on the OCD and either change the colour temperature or the colour channel values independently until you get the 'right look'. If you mess up and want to return to where you started from hit that Reset button again.

    I can't be more specific as my Sony Trinitron - fine monitor - was passed on some years ago and I now use Iiyama flat screens.
     
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    You edited while I was posting :)
     
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    OK you caught me--as soon as I saw that color button (after I posted), I thought to myself, oh man I hope nobody tells me to work on that before I can edit my post. :D
     
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    Well I checked under my workbench and there is my Trinitron 200GS :) - must have passed on a CTX and kept the good monitor.

    As soon as I can I'll fire it up and see what's what wrt the colour settings - I think the box on which it sits has a Vista beta on it.

    BTW - have you installed the monitor drivers?
     
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    I went to Sony's site and can't find anything. I inserted Multiscan 200ES and Trinitron, but it said no such items were found. Anyways I'll get back later tonight after work.
     
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    I too looked over Sony - seems that CRT's have joined the dinosaurs as far as they are concerned :)

    It seems you are out of luck as far as adjusting individual colour channels are concerned - what I found is shown in the attached screenshots - I doubt that convergence will do any good if the overall tint is red. This applet is designed to focus the colour guns at the same point thus avoiding colour fringing.

    However I found that I have a copy of the .inf files for the monitor - they are the same for the 200E & 200G and these are also attached.
     

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    I also found the Sony installation disk - for Win 95 as are the others I posted above - copy attached. Probably work on XP - I retired the monitor in favour of a 22" Iiyama CRT in 2003 according to my accounts and would have been using XP.
     

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    Great find, Ann :)
     
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    My pleasure. At least I've accomplished something positive today. :) Seems I've been supplying answers to abandoned posts lately. :D
     
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    Ann and Pete, thanks to you both. I did d/l and use the Device Manager to try to update my drivers, but for both files, Windows told me that it couldn't find a driver that was more up to date than the one I had--and I did unzip/extract, and then tell XP where to find it.

    The manual did tell me how to reset all the factory default settings (instead of just the one that you had been tinkering with), but still that same reddish tint. Not too sure about this one, looks like we might just have to live with it. This thing turned nine in March and apart from this, is still kicking. Given that my 4-year-old desktop is doing just as well, I doubt I'll be buying anything anytime soon that might qualify me for a free monitor (like dell does some times).

    Hey thanks again. At least I have something to tell wifey, that I tried. ;)
     
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    Yes - I guess it's age kicking in - shame, but nothing you can do about it it would seem :(.
     
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