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Posted July 1, 2005 - 6:34pm by Ila002

Can digital cameras match the quality of an analog camera?

I have an Olympus camera and a Canon i9900 printer and i feel the image quality can improve. Would a better digital camera help or should I go with an analog camera and get it devoloped?

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by bradenalexander - Jul 2 2005 - 11:39am
Well that depends. Are you wanting quality on screen or in print? If you're mainly concerned with on-screen quality, I have seen photographs taken masterfully with 3mp cameras. The Most important thing you can do is to learn what strength and weaknesses your camera has and play to those. I say this is the most important because this is the most cost effective method (by cost effective I mean free :D). But really, without seeing an image or knowing what model olympus you're using, it is difficult to help offer some advice. Perhaps a link to an image?
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by LosdaBear - Jul 2 2005 - 12:09pm
Like Branden said... it depends. If you're just going for online posting of images, a 2-3mp camera is really fine, considering you'll reduce it down to under 500kb most of the time anyway. But if you want to make larger prints it may well not be adequate. I have a Canon 10d and can make prints up to 20"x30" no problem, no pixelization...

Carl

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by KChris - Jul 4 2005 - 4:49am
I also have an olympus camera c730uz,3mp.For screenresolution you can make perfect pictures in jpg.I always used the high quality jpg. When I want pictures to develope on paper I shoot them in TIFF.I have several pictures 40cm*30cm on my wall.Much depends on the time you spend to make a picture and using a tripod.Okay you have much better camera's like canon or nikon DSLR but, there is always the price.When you just start and really don't know if photographie is your thing you don't want to spend so much money on a camera.I alway say,there is always 70% photographer and 30% camera and there will always be some better camera even when you get the latest,tommorow there is a better one on the market.I think working with digital camera's is the best thing you can do to manipulate your picture in the best way.
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by Ila002 - Jul 6 2005 - 6:12pm
My camera is about 4 years old. It is an Olympus brio Camedia D-230 2MP. I haven't really had any problms with the camera taking god pictures, I just don't like the way they turn out whe I print them. The printer I have is a Canon i9900. I have played with the printer settings, sometimes they are alright, and some times they are just awful! I use glossy photo paper too. Some times the colors are so off that when it is done printing the picture looks like a picture that was taken in the 1900's and has been fading away. The colors look dismel, yellow is tan instead of yellow, etc. What am I doing wrong?
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by LosdaBear - Jul 10 2005 - 3:28pm
Ila, have you calibrated your monitor with your printer? If you haven't, what you see on the screen is not what you're going to get when you print. If you have Photoshop then you can use the Adobe Gamma corrector which I think does a very good job. I've used a Pantone Spyder and it washed my screen out... Obviously other peoples experience can be different than mine.

Carl

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by Eurydice - Jul 12 2005 - 1:07pm
My camera is only a 3.2megapixel Canon S1. I've taken some very nice pictures with it and although I can't make huge prints. 8 x 10's on my i960 printer are beautiful. There is no pixelation whatever. If you are having problems with your printing on the i990 not only may your monitor be not well calibrated but you may be using either low-quality paper or if you are using better quality papers, you may still have to calibrate your printer by making a profile for the type of paper (every company's paper is different) before printing. Good quality papers have specific instructions with the settings that are needed for quality prints within the package so this should be easy to set up. Using the wrong setting on good paper will not give you good results..so it's very important.
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by Ila002 - Jul 18 2005 - 11:50am
Thank you every one for your suggestions. Does any one know where there is a good write up on how to calibrate the printer? I think that is what my problem is.
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by Ila002 - Aug 9 2005 - 5:34pm
My yellow started to have problems printing so canon replaced the print head to see if that would fix it...but no luck. More tests are being done to see what the issue is....