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Newbie to digital photography here. Recently retired and recently a
Grandpa for the first time. Have used a digital camera for the past 5 years or so at school but only for webpages and printing. The camera was an Olympus C700, I think. Had no problems with it. Since I retired, I wanted a digital camera for the new grandbaby. Wanted good auto mode, clear pictures and good colors. Read reviews on the web and decided on and bought a Canon Powershot A540. Has many added features if I want to get further into picture taking. This problem has probably been addressed here many times. I downloaded the last 500 posts to the group and did not see anything about it so am posting and asking for help or your thoughts. Am using auto mode, sized for a little bigger than an 8X10 and superfine quality since I bought a 1G card for the camera. The camera has a 2" or 2.5" LCD viewer. I use the LCD and also the viewfinder to take pictures. The pictures shown on the LCD are beautiful. Download by USB to Macintosh. The pictures on the computer are great and make great desktop pictures. Now the problelm.....took the card to CVS and used the picture machine to have prints made. The prints do not look near as good as on the LCD or the computer. They seem very dull and washed out. Thoughts appreciated! tia.......Rich |
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My daughter just got a Canon - I'm not overly impressed with the quality.
I've used a Nikon D-50 for my photos, but also have used the Sony Cybershot for pix that I don't need to adjust or care about artistic shots. I like the Sony much better for the quality. "Rich Binkley" wrote in message ... Newbie to digital photography here. Recently retired and recently a Grandpa for the first time. Have used a digital camera for the past 5 years or so at school but only for webpages and printing. The camera was an Olympus C700, I think. Had no problems with it. Since I retired, I wanted a digital camera for the new grandbaby. Wanted good auto mode, clear pictures and good colors. Read reviews on the web and decided on and bought a Canon Powershot A540. Has many added features if I want to get further into picture taking. This problem has probably been addressed here many times. I downloaded the last 500 posts to the group and did not see anything about it so am posting and asking for help or your thoughts. Am using auto mode, sized for a little bigger than an 8X10 and superfine quality since I bought a 1G card for the camera. The camera has a 2" or 2.5" LCD viewer. I use the LCD and also the viewfinder to take pictures. The pictures shown on the LCD are beautiful. Download by USB to Macintosh. The pictures on the computer are great and make great desktop pictures. Now the problelm.....took the card to CVS and used the picture machine to have prints made. The prints do not look near as good as on the LCD or the computer. They seem very dull and washed out. Thoughts appreciated! tia.......Rich |
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Rich Binkley wrote:
The pictures shown on the LCD are beautiful. Download by USB to Macintosh. The pictures on the computer are great and make great desktop pictures. Now the problelm.....took the card to CVS and used the picture machine to have prints made. The prints do not look near as good as on the LCD or the computer. They seem very dull and washed out. My daughter just got a Canon - I'm not overly impressed with the quality. I've used a Nikon D-50 for my photos, but also have used the Sony Cybershot for pix that I don't need to adjust or care about artistic shots. I like the Sony much better for the quality. I do not know if I have a problem with the camera or the developer. I would think that if the camera shows good pictures on the LCD and the mac shows good pictures on the screen, I should get good pictures when I have prints made. Am I wrong in this. I really do not know. I would have thought I could get at least as good a quality priints with this new camera as we do with the 30 year old film camera it was to replace. Again, I really do not know. tia.....Rich |
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"Rich Binkley" wrote in message ... Newbie to digital photography here. Recently retired and recently a Grandpa for the first time. Have used a digital camera for the past 5 years or so at school but only for webpages and printing. The camera was an Olympus C700, I think. Had no problems with it. Since I retired, I wanted a digital camera for the new grandbaby. Wanted good auto mode, clear pictures and good colors. Read reviews on the web and decided on and bought a Canon Powershot A540. Has many added features if I want to get further into picture taking. This problem has probably been addressed here many times. I downloaded the last 500 posts to the group and did not see anything about it so am posting and asking for help or your thoughts. Am using auto mode, sized for a little bigger than an 8X10 and superfine quality since I bought a 1G card for the camera. The camera has a 2" or 2.5" LCD viewer. I use the LCD and also the viewfinder to take pictures. The pictures shown on the LCD are beautiful. Download by USB to Macintosh. The pictures on the computer are great and make great desktop pictures. Now the problelm.....took the card to CVS and used the picture machine to have prints made. The prints do not look near as good as on the LCD or the computer. They seem very dull and washed out. Thoughts appreciated! tia.......Rich Hi there. First off, I am not familiar with your camera, and it is a very long time (5yrs) since I last used a Mac, so my suggestions may turn out to be total rubbish. If the coulours and density are Ok on both the Camera and the Monitor, it could just be that the lab were having a bad day, or perhaps every day is a bad one. Try someplace else. If the problem is the same, then it is your system that is wrong. You should check the Camera menus to ensure that the Camera is not set to attach the Adobe RGB Profile to the images, and that the Mac is also not set to Adobe RGB. If they are change them to sRGB. Commercial printers almost always want sRGB Profile. An image tagged with Adobe RGB and viewed or printed on a sRGB System will look dull and and washed out. Another possibility is that your Monitor is needing Calibrated, and is showing the images as more bright and saturated than they actually are. Quite often the Camera LCD will make pictures look brighter than they really are, and in any case it is difficult to make accurate decisions on such a small screen. The other common cause of viewing errors, is having the Monitor set to its native colour Temperature of 9300K when for accurate printing it should be set to 6500K. These are a few suggestions, which could all be playing some part or none. Roy G |
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Roy, DHB & Hoover, thanks for your time and the replies. Will try
another type machine and look into the other suggestions. Appreciated.....Rich |
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no problem Rich, good luck - let us know what you get and how you like it
"Rich Binkley" wrote in message ... Roy, DHB & Hoover, thanks for your time and the replies. Will try another type machine and look into the other suggestions. Appreciated.....Rich |
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hoover wrote:
no problem Rich, good luck - let us know what you get and how you like it "Rich Binkley" wrote in message ... Roy, DHB & Hoover, thanks for your time and the replies. Will try another type machine and look into the other suggestions. Appreciated.....Rich Went to another CVS and got pictures done. They were much better. Had the same pictures done at a Walgreens and they were about the same as the second CVS. Must just be our local CVS. Do not mind going to another picture place, just an excuse to get the Goldwing out. Thanks to all, Rich |
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