Hi!

Simple camera's don't usually have much options. Auto is pretty good. More expensive camera's have several good settings. Landscape is one of the most common one and very useful.

I own Nikon D-60 and my habbit is when I go outside I take first snap shot of area that has alot colors. Snow in winter, green grass during summer. Then I adjust the colors via menu to match up the colors. My Nikon has pretty good white balances and works really well in auto aswell, except when it comes to flouriscent lamps.

Now main reason for is camera's sensor is sevearly limited when compearing human eye. Human eye can see Moon, its ocean's and clouds front of it all well in town. However camera cannot capture that in one picture due limitation's of sensor and when it comes to general light balance. Human eye can balance various spots easily to match best possible result. Camera cannot do that. Camera can only use one exposure to capture image, when human eye continously render the image, changes the exposure. Your brain does all the work, color balancing, adjusting and such in microseconds and reacts way camera sensor cannot. Camera sensor's are designed to get best average result. DSLR's often give a lot customization when it comes to white blaance and color balance.

One way to bring out the greens is to use Circular Polarizer Lense. That will fit most SuperZoom's and DSLR's. Not unfortunately most pocket camera's without cumberstome adapters.

Now photographer's doesn't to take pictures that exactly reprisent what you see, but rather share your vision.

If you have DSLR, I suggest you spend some time with manual and read about white balances and color balancing section and how to adjust those. Then go outdoors and start adjusting them. It doesn't take much with modern DSLR's to get balances you want.

When it comes to monitor's: Each monitor has different settings default. Each manufacturer use different materials and assembly differs as differs their settings in default. If you want 100% color reproduction, you will need to go 2 price range up from mainstream monitors into professional section. Eizo has made some really good TFT's in color reproduction but they cost $1000+ and then get image calibration device which is attached to monitor and used to get exact color reproduction.

TFT is not that good with high contrast and actual color production due technology. We're having soon OLED monitors ( ORganic LIght Emmition Diode) which should improve greatly the color. Old CRT's were really good in color and contrast production.

sorry for long winded post.

Yours truely,
Jani