Canon G7

[lea murphy]

I bought one a year or so ago. Doesn't shoot RAW, only jpg.

While I love the features, layout and design I keep getting really  
cruddy images out of this little beast.

Does anyone else use one and if so, you give me some suggested  
settings so that my images might look good out of the camera? I'm  
seeing very blah colors and am using the standard color settings,  
often at ISO 200 or 400.

Help! is muchly appreciated.

Lea

babies. they're what i do.
www.leamurphy.com

[howard.leigh111]

VERY odd - I've got one and I think the results are superb at <400, but
a bit off at 400 and definitely at higher.
I'll look at mine again and write further.
But I use Normal colours, set white balance to automatic (blush) or
other if I'm concerned.
No sharpening.
Max image size and minimal sharpening.
Other than using flash I set camera to P and select ISO by hand.

Howard

Lea Murphy wrote:

> I bought one a year or so ago. Doesn't shoot RAW, only jpg.
>
> While I love the features, layout and design I keep getting really
> cruddy images out of this little beast.
>
> Does anyone else use one and if so, you give me some suggested
> settings so that my images might look good out of the camera? I'm
> seeing very blah colors and am using the standard color settings,
> often at ISO 200 or 400.
>
> Help! is muchly appreciated.
>
> Lea
>
> babies. they're what i do.
> www.leamurphy.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

[Pini Vollach]

Hi Lea,
What exactely is "cruddy" ? sharpness, colors, contrast ?

Pini

????? Lea Murphy:

> I bought one a year or so ago. Doesn't shoot RAW, only jpg.
>
> While I love the features, layout and design I keep getting really
> cruddy images out of this little beast.
>
> Does anyone else use one and if so, you give me some suggested
> settings so that my images might look good out of the camera? I'm
> seeing very blah colors and am using the standard color settings,
> often at ISO 200 or 400.
>
> Help! is muchly appreciated.
>
> Lea
>
> babies. they're what i do.
> www.leamurphy.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

[lea murphy]

Colors and contrast in particular.

Outside, in the sun on a sunny day this camera is great. Inside not so  
much. In the shade, not so much.

Any ideas how to punch it up?

Lea

On Jul 15, 2008, at 3:51 PM, Pini Vollach wrote:

>
> Hi Lea,
> What exactely is "cruddy" ? sharpness, colors, contrast ?
>
> Pini
>
> ????? Lea Murphy:
>> I bought one a year or so ago. Doesn't shoot RAW, only jpg.
>>
>> While I love the features, layout and design I keep getting really  
>> cruddy images out of this little beast.
>>
>> Does anyone else use one and if so, you give me some suggested  
>> settings so that my images might look good out of the camera? I'm  
>> seeing very blah colors and am using the standard color settings,  
>> often at ISO 200 or 400.
>>
>> Help! is muchly appreciated.
>>
>> Lea
>>
>> babies. they're what i do.
>> www.leamurphy.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

babies. they're what i do.
www.leamurphy.com

[Robert McCulloch]

I have a G7 and love it, 200 ASA, cloudy white balance, vivid color setting, recently I've even bought the filter holder and started using a polarizer with it. check out
bobmcculloch.myphotographer.com
all the shots in the gallery were taken on it.
Bob.

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Howard <howard.leigh111@...> wrote:

VERY odd - I've got one and I think the results are superb at <400, but a bit off at 400 and definitely at higher.
I'll look at mine again and write further.
But I use Normal colours, set white balance to automatic (blush) or other if I'm concerned.
No sharpening.
Max image size and minimal sharpening.
Other than using flash I set camera to P and select ISO by hand.

Howard

Lea Murphy wrote:

I bought one a year or so ago. Doesn't shoot RAW, only jpg.

While I love the features, layout and design I keep getting really cruddy images out of this little beast.

Does anyone else use one and if so, you give me some suggested settings so that my images might look good out of the camera? I'm seeing very blah colors and am using the standard color settings, often at ISO 200 or 400.

Help! is muchly appreciated.

Lea

babies. they're what i do.
www.leamurphy.com

[lea murphy]

Thanks for helping on this.

Going from the neutral to the vivid setting and roping the ISO down to 200 seems to have done the trick.

Wish 400 and higher were better than they are, sadly, they are not.

Neutral is really icky. Wonder when it would be useful.

Lea

life is short. photograph it.

www.leamurphy.com

On Jul 15, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Robert McCulloch <bobmcculloch@...> wrote:

I have a G7 and love it, 200 ASA, cloudy white balance, vivid color setting, recently I've even bought the filter holder and started using a polarizer with it. check out
bobmcculloch.myphotographer.com
all the shots in the gallery were taken on it.
Bob.

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Howard <howard.leigh111@...> wrote:

VERY odd - I've got one and I think the results are superb at <400, but a bit off at 400 and definitely at higher.
I'll look at mine again and write further.
But I use Normal colours, set white balance to automatic (blush) or other if I'm concerned.
No sharpening.
Max image size and minimal sharpening.
Other than using flash I set camera to P and select ISO by hand.

Howard

Lea Murphy wrote:

I bought one a year or so ago. Doesn't shoot RAW, only jpg.

While I love the features, layout and design I keep getting really cruddy images out of this little beast.

Does anyone else use one and if so, you give me some suggested settings so that my images might look good out of the camera? I'm seeing very blah colors and am using the standard color settings, often at ISO 200 or 400.

Help! is muchly appreciated.

Lea

babies. they're what i do.
www.leamurphy.com