Color shift to red with D600?

After 5 years with a D300, I just got a D600. There are many things to learn, but the color rendition has me baffled. I have very happy with my card-to-monitor-to-print colors with the D300 all along.

I admit that I'm using a cheap LCD computer monitor, but it has worked out. I tried to calibrate the monitor with a Spyder3 - three times - and each time left my monitor incredibly blue. I went back factory defaults, which were working fine.

I have only shot about 100 frames, but they are noticeably tinted magenta. This is especially evident when the subject includes Caucasian skin. They look great on the D600 LCD, of course, but they look very pink on my monitor. When I print, I have adjusted the brightness about +25 in CS4 and the print is still too dark.

Do I need to find or create a different color profile for the D600? Where would I find this in CS4 or on the Internet? Any suggestions - especially from D600 users - will be appreciated.

Camera: Nikon D600
Lens: Nikkor 28-300, most used so far
Dell XPS computer
Dell "base" LCD monitor
Epson Stylus Photo RX580
Windows XP
Photoshop CS4

I'm looking for a solution that will work with JPGs shot with my D600, so unless it is the ONLY solution, please do not simply suggest a new software, like CS6 or Lightroom, which do not run under Windows 95.

I looked at one sample image from a friend's D600. He is a studio pro with 30 years experience and he says the image looks fine. HIS D600 file looks just as bad on my monitor as mine do.

There does not appear to be a Camera RAW upgrade for the D600 for CS4, either, so just shooting in RAW won't help. That's a whole other issue.

SUMMARY: After 5 years of no color issues with the D300, the D600 is displaying a decidedly magenta color cast. I'm looking for a plug-in or other fix for this problem.

That is a good question.

Back when I was using Canon's routinely (my client supplied the cameras) one of my D1s, Mark III's always produced images that were about 30 points cyan. The other one was just fine. This is probably why I started shooting RAW as a practice since I could use a custom white balance preset to correct the problem.

In the white balance settings in your cameras menu, you can adjust the colour for JPEG files. If you are getting a shift to magenta, on page 117 shows how you can manually shift the way JPEG files are recorded using the "fine tuning" feature

I would call Nikon As soon as possible and see what they have to say. Of all the Nikon dSLR cameras I have used and owned, I have never seen this happen, although I now use a custom white balance (using my Xrite Colorchecker Passport) because many of the high school gymnasiums and football fields have different lighting schemes

Yes. You need to do a new color profile for the D600. The color algorithm in the D600, D800 and D4 is completely different than what is in APS cameras, especially older ones. Nikon says that new color management algorithms in the FF cameras are a big improvement and much more accurate.

Try setting your WB off a piece of white paper, could be a camera fault…