Photos imported from camera never quite right?

[Arif110]

Hi there,

A staunch film-user - I've recently crossed over to the dark side and bought a Canon Ixus 850IS. Now - the laptop I use is a new Toshiba, & I'm importing the images into Photoshop.

So my problem is - the image on the LCD monitor at the back of the camera is almost always really bright and lovely to behold - however once imported, looks quite dull.

Monitor calibrated fine, too.

Of course I can correct this in PS - but why can it not appear as it was? I also prefer the idea of having the image 'as-was'.

I've tried over-exposing by a stop or so - but then the image on-camera is horrendous, and it doesn't really solve the problem.

Any help/opinions/experience appreciated!!


Arif

[poah]

camera LCD's are usually poor at an accurate representation of brightness, contrast and colour saturation that I don't bother with the picture but look at the LCD. it is also possible that your monitor while calibrated is not great (mine is like that) post a couple of pics and see what other people think

[Arif110]

Thanks for the quick first reponse.

Posting a pic won't actually do much - as what you's would need to see is the image as it looks on the back of the camera - all I could post is the imported image, which will be dull if I leave it alone, or better if I tweaked it.

Any more opinions would be great.

[te51cle]

Sounds like you might need to explore the menus on the back of your compact. If you scroll through all of them you should be able to find options to increase contrast, brightness, saturation and sharpness of the image via a range of slider-type controls. They could be a sub-menu under some kind of manual mode. You might also want to reduce the brighness of the LCD screen on the back of the camera a bit.

[Arif110]

Hey thanks, all - it figures that the LCD doesn't exactly purport to depict the photograph as it was truly captured.