I went to a live event and I took picture's, using my digital camera. The picture's on my digital camera looked sharp and clear, but when my husband took them to Wal-Mart and developed them himself, using the machine they provide, for people who take picture's using digital camera's and who want to develop them theirselves, some came out clear, some came out fuzzy. What happened and is it possible for me to have them reprinted so that they will look clearer? Thanks.
2007-01-10 04:08:37 · 8 answers · asked by A_WWE_FAN_4LYFE 6 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cameras
I don't know without seeing the pictures, but you can't really judge how clear a picture is on your 2" monitor. You are looking about about 100,000 pixels on a monitor and it will pretty much always look sharp. If your camera lets you zoom in on the monitor while viewing pictures, try that. Zoom in as much as possible and see if the details still look pretty sharp. If you can see sharp details on the monitor but still get a fuzzy print of that image from the Wal-Mart machine, ask for help (or a refund) at Wal-Mart. If you can't see really sharp detail, you will not be able to get a good print from anywhere.
2007-01-10 04:14:59 · answer #1 · answered by Jess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alan is correct about the view screen. I will hazard a guess that you are using a consumer point & shoot on auto and maybe digital zoom? I am a photo lab manager and I see this every day. Almost all P&S digicams suffer at higher ISO speeds. In a concert venue, the camera probably defaulted to the fastest ISO setting, thus introducing noise. (The equivelent of film grain, only worse.) And digital zoom only makes a decent picture bad and a bad picture worse. And some pics may have suffered from camera shake or subject movement as well. If that is the case, not much can be done to help the picture. There are software programs for reducing noise. Noise Ninja is one that works with Photoshop. Reducing noise unfortunately means losing detail, as well. Clubs, shows and musical venues are hard to photograph in general. So if you have a third to a half keepers, then you did pretty well!
2016-05-23 04:25:51 · answer #2 · answered by Danielle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alan is correct about the view screen. I will hazard a guess that you are using a consumer point & shoot on auto and maybe digital zoom? I am a photo lab manager and I see this every day.
Almost all P&S digicams suffer at higher ISO speeds. In a concert venue, the camera probably defaulted to the fastest ISO setting, thus introducing noise. (The equivelent of film grain, only worse.) And digital zoom only makes a decent picture bad and a bad picture worse.
And some pics may have suffered from camera shake or subject movement as well. If that is the case, not much can be done to help the picture. There are software programs for reducing noise. Noise Ninja is one that works with Photoshop. Reducing noise unfortunately means losing detail, as well.
Clubs, shows and musical venues are hard to photograph in general. So if you have a third to a half keepers, then you did pretty well!
2007-01-10 08:10:08 · answer #3 · answered by Ara57 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's really hard to take a series of pictures without having a couple of them turning out blurry. That's because it's hard to hold the camera pefectly still when you're taking pictures, and when your subject moves, in a sports setting, like you say you were at, then the chances increase for a few more blurry shots.
Several new cameras have a "anti-shake" technology built in that with various means - some better than others - drasticly reducing blurry pictures.
As you've seen, those little displays on the back of your camera, just don't show you enough detail, to avoid keeping and printing these shots.
The machines at Wallmart do have big displays and it's pretty easy to see the quality of what you are printing - sorry to rat on your husband - he must have been in a hurry - as everyone is.
There is a few filters in these machines that can take "slightly" blurry pictures and still get a good print out of them. Some of these self-serve machines have lots of features to help you before you press that print button. I'm getting your husband in more trouble here!
Here's the final answer to your question - all cameras come with software to edit your picture before printing, and you can buy better programs that give you even more features, so it's possible that you can "save" a couple of your shots for re-printing once you do this.
We are very lucky to be able to control our pictures to such a degree now. I have, through several years now of learning the software I have to edit my pictures, beautiful shots mounted on my walls and in the homes of friends and even the coffee shop down the street has one of my prints hanging up. You can improve the quality of your print making too - but it all takes time.
2007-01-10 04:40:41 · answer #4 · answered by Steven S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It probably has something to do with the pixels. The screen on your little cam is much smaller and shows them clearer because all the pixels are scrunched together. The bigger you make the picture (more you stretch it out) the pixels start pixelating and it looks weird and fuzzy. You could try asking wal-mart to see a preview of what the picture will be.
2007-01-10 04:14:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The pictures were probably out of focus or blurry when taken. It's just that on that little 2" display on the back of the camera- you couldn't tell.
2007-01-10 04:24:29 · answer #6 · answered by Morey000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you printed them in a larger size than was shown on the screen, they just likely weren't as clear to begin with as you thought, and you won't be able to get them any clearer at walmart. If that's the case, or if not, you could photoshop them.
2007-01-10 04:13:44 · answer #7 · answered by emily_brown18 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will not matter how you make the prints if they are out of focus you just cant fix it
2007-01-10 13:54:55 · answer #8 · answered by michael k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋