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I'm sure that Kai and Loc on DigitalREV with their pink cameras are more pro that lots of wannabes with black cameras. As far as being more conspicuous, a Nikon D4 with a 14-24 or a 200-400mm is a lot more conspicuous.... or any of those white Canon L lenses.

The only reason that I perhaps wouldn't buy it other than personal taste is resale. Red is going to be harder to sell than black.

Its too late for this gig, however your DSLR is competent of calibrating itself to any lights, even mixed lighting fixtures (tungsten, fluorescent and so forth) investigate your guide as each and every brand is distinct. Surroundings the digital camera to one of the defaults not often works because the lights is typically combined and even intentionally coloured. To use this you set your camera in white steadiness calibration and point it at a grey card or (even a white piece of paper) the digital camera will then set its RGB channels to make this grey (or white). The hindrance with this is they frequently alternate the white stability for the period of the performance .... Learn on. Something which you could try with your photos is a rapid means of getting the color stability correct in Photoshop, find anything in any of the pictures which is a neutral gray genuinely. Open this photograph in Photoshop and open a phases Adjustment Layer on the bottom right hand aspect there are three pipettes, the centre on sets the grey (Gamma) click on on the pipette after which click on on the grey object and immediately the image must be color corrected. Clicking around the grey object will get subtly one-of-a-kind effects. Once your glad with the outcome retailer the profile. Open one other image and open another phases Adjustment Layer and cargo the snapshot. You could follow this profile to all your pictures making use of Bulk Processing. What Photoshop is doing is, a impartial grey continuously has the equal worth of pink, inexperienced and Blue, this value can also be anything from 0,0,0 for a impartial Black to 255,255,255 for a neutral White, however it works better with a mid gray. It alters the crimson and Blue element of the selected pixels (by way of default an normal of a 6 X 6 matrix) to the same price of the green which makes the selected pixels a impartial gray it then remaps all the other pixels within the picture utilising that as a datum. I constantly raise a grey card and take one body with the gray card in entrance of the lens at roughly the equal attitude to the sunshine as my discipline, that is the body that makes this correction convenient, you desire a new one everytime they change the lighting fixtures, however its rapidly completed. It doesn't have got to be in focus its simply the colour we're after. This approach is clearly less complicated than altering the white balance in the digicam as I inevitably omit to reset it. Duh. Chris

If you are a young person you can almost certainly get away with a 'styled' camera. But if you want to look like you have joined the more serious club then you need to have the same uniform as everyone else.

The photos couldn't care less what colour the camera is. Maybe you get a different reaction from subject.... child notice red camera and smile more nicely? Old person expresses surprise at a colourful camera etc.

It's my money which purchased my Pentax DSLR in red! If somebody does not like it, they can take a long walk on a short bridge!!

If you are in public and some wants to know who the professional photographer is. It makes a point,

"It's the guy over there with the red camera!"

You wont look very professional with a d3100 anyway... so... At the end of the day your pictures make you look professional, not your camera but I guess you already know that. :-)

I really like the design though and I do also like the red body of it... I just prefer a more professional camera in general.

They look goofy and cheap. However the models that come is red aren't pro. In the end it is your pictures but why you chose red is beyond me. It is easier to steal (if they want it), it doesn't always match with your attire, it is less conspicuous and looks cheap.

In the end it is just a camera but a camera alone makes enough of a "fashion statement" without the need to over compensate.

I guess the companies do it because there is a demand so don't feel centered out. However, you also just killed the resale value over a black one if you ever decide to sell it.

So what if other people think that you'd look un-pro? It's all a matter of personal preference. If you like a red one, then go for it! I think it would look awesome.

Never gave too much thought about this

Thank you all for your answers and opinions!