Picture Quality

[Tom Mckibbin]

I have camera panasonic lumix dmc fz45. pictures look good on camera lcd screen. when transferred to windows live photo gallery they are dull and need serious editing. Am on windows 7, can anybody help?

 

[WindowsSelena]

It is becuase the resolttion viewed on lcd of camera is small enough to view better quality images. While when it comes to larger pixels/resolution monitor, it goes off!

How many megapixels camera you have? 14!!!

 

[mitchell65]

There's no reason why this camera should not produce fairly high quality images but it does depend to a large extent what settings you use. What ISO is it normally set to and what image quality have you chosen. What size is a typical image file (in Mb's I mean) The fine quality JPEG setting should give you an image of a bit over 5Mb!

 

[Tom Mckibbin]

Sorry, but its nothing to do with camera settings, i use various. Its a computer colour setting problem which i just cannot find out.

 

[Tom Mckibbin]

Camera

It is becuase the resolttion viewed on lcd of camera is small enough to view better quality images. While when it comes to larger pixels/resolution monitor, it goes off!

How many megapixels camera you have? 14!!!

yes 14, but its nowt to do with camera. Its computer colour setting problem i just cannot find out.

 

[mitchell65]

Tell us what the problem is and we will try to help you solve it!

 

[Tom Mckibbin]

All pics on camera screen look fine. once moved to computer they are very dull and need serious editing. Contrast, saturation, shadowing etc.

 

[mitchell65]

Go to the Windows sample images and see what hey look like on your screen. Libraries/Pictures/Sample pictures

 

[Tom Mckibbin]

pics quality

done that. all other pics ok. just from camers they are lifeless

 

[mitchell65]

How are you transferring from the camera to your PC?
Which one of these settings do you use:
Fine / Standard / RAW+Fine / RAW+Standard / RAW

 

[Tom Mckibbin]

pic quality

its fine or standard. deffo not one of the raw ones. battery charging at moment but remember seeing it on 1st on list of options so possibly fine

 

[mitchell65]

OK but i did ask how you transfer the images from the camera to the PC? Also I see that you can record to the following:
Built-in Memory, SD Memory Card, SDHC Memory Card, SDXC Memory Card
Which one do you use?

 

[Tom Mckibbin]

pic quality

sorry i transfer mostly via usb but other day straight from card. made no difference. i have a PNY 8GB SDHC MEMORY CARD.

 

[mitchell65]

Have you tried recording to the inbuilt memory? I say this in case your card is faulty!

 

[Tom Mckibbin]

pic quality

i haven't but i will. let u know later when battery done.

 

[mitchell65]

Tom
Do you use Skype?

 

[Tom Mckibbin]

sorry no skype. didn't wait for battery to fully charge. had to try it without card. made no difference. bright colourful pic on camera, dull on computer.

 

[GeneO]

All pics on camera screen look fine. once moved to computer they are very dull and need serious editing. Contrast, saturation, shadowing etc.

What color space is the camera using? Set the color space to sRGB if you can.

 

[Tom Mckibbin]

pics quality

sRGB. sorry but not got a clue what that is. how ignorant am i.

 

[mitchell65]

I was going to go down that route but needed first to ask., How long have you had the camera? Did you have it from new? Has it ever worked properly/ If so when did this problem start. What photo editing program do you use?