digital images a little of colour

Keith W
Are you sure the exposure isn't too much as this will deplete colours and tend to wash away colour and it gets worse with more and exposure.
So OVER Exposure would seem to be the problem.

In the camera setup menu there will a setting for exposure and it is usually represented as a dotted line with a + one end and a - the other.

I would suspect the camera has it's setting for exposure above the base line in the + direction possibly about 3 or 4 dots too high.
Have a look there.

Under exposure will make it darker and darker, quite the reverse of the washout aspect.

Ross

I'm thinking back to the days of film, the film itself is black so if you take a minimal exposure most of the black remains and when printed you see the reverse, a pale image. Unless with digital this is now back to front then I'm sticking with under exposure. If an expert with digital cares to chime in I'm happy to be wrong though ;)

Well I just dug out the camera and tried a couple of images and I'm going to have to eat humble pie here, I got it back to front.
Am now going to take my medication before any postings.
Keith ......what Ross said.

thanks to all for the response, will try a few different settings to see what happens. i have a few different programs to edit pics, including picasa etc.

thanks again, will keep eye on thread to see if anymore ideas are there. i'm an auto point and shoot sort of guy.

cheers
keith

Keith W
Do you like Picasa on your computer?
Does it take charge and tell you/want to control all the photos and know better than you what you want to do?
I won't use those programs because of the degree of control they have over everything.
Like Ipods do with music.

Got rid of the Ipod and Looney tunes, sorry I mean Itunes. Kodak for pictures the same.
I want to decide what I want to do.

Oh and another thing if in doubt always under expose as you can correct under exposure... over exposure you can't.