Digital photos - just not the same as film
By coffeebreak
@coffeebreak (17798)
United States
April 17, 2008 7:47pm CST
I took a step into the 21st Century and I broke down and gave digital camera a try. First, my suggestion..never buy one that uses regular AA batteries. I dont' use mine that much and got it for Christmas and have already had to change te batteries 3 times now. I'd had a film camera that used a lithieum battery and used the camera alot and only had to get a new one once a year or even longer sometimes.
But... It is nice to not have to be carrying the extra rolls of film, just an extra little memory stick.
And it is nice be able to see the photo right there and then so you can do a re-take if necessary instead of having to wait till they are developed and then not only not getting a good picture, but having to waste money paying for one that is trashed. It is nice to be able download from the stick to the PC and pick and choose what photos you want to print and pay only for the ones you want!
It is nice to be able to sit at your PC and "send" them to Target or whereever and be able to pick the up in an hour (or whenever) It is nice that they have the option at no extra charge that they will send you the pics and you don't even have to go get them!
My problem? The color. They look great on the camera, they look great on my PC screen, but when I pick them up... the color is not right. Granted, if I hadn't seen it better I probably wouldn't have noticed, but I know that the color is not right - to dark or to red, things like that. ANd then I have to pay for pics that aren't what I thought, but just cross the line to adequate.
So.... do you have this problem? If so, any suggestions on how to handle it?
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5 responses
@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
18 Apr 08
I take a lot of photos for a band and I was going through ordinary batteries like crazy but i started using the AA lithium batteries and i get about 60 to 80 shots so I am happy with that, it is great not having to get film processed and all but I must be honest after a recent trip to the zoo my old photo taken with a film camera were better than the photos i took with my digital camera and my digital is a 10meg camera...
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
18 Apr 08
They make AA lithium batteries? Is it a single battery or 2, like regular AA's? I'll look for that. Thanks for commenting. Glad to know it isn't just me being picky!
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@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
18 Apr 08
You can buy then in a double if your camera is built to take them that way or you can buy them single just like normal AA or AAA batteries, they sell them where ever they sell batteries and a few different companies are making them now and of course can not be recharged, they are a little more expensive, I would never go back to ordinary batteries for my camera or ever use rechargeable again...
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@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
18 Apr 08
Thanks. I'm going to look for them. If I am constantly buying the cheaper regular AA's, I might as well spend a bit more and not have to constantly be concerned if the bat is going bad. Thanks for enlightening me!
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@desertdarlene (8910)
• United States
18 Apr 08
Yeah, I had the same problems with some of my first digital cameras. But, when you get to the nicer DSLRs, the color is much more accurate. I remember that was once my chief complaint against buying a digital camera and still using my film SLR--the colors don't look right. But, my Canon 350D has great color accuracy. And, during those times where it doesn't, I use an image editing program to correct the color. I use mostly Gimp, Photoshop, or the software that comes with the camera.
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@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
18 Apr 08
Mine is new - Cannon Powershot A560. I didn't do the editing first, didn't realize it'd be an issue. Figured with all the hoopla these last few years of everything going digital, that if the digital cameras produced worse pictures than film, people wouldn't have taken to them as much as they have. Oh well, guess we have to do half their work for them!
@MGjhaud (23240)
• Philippines
18 Apr 08
That's the beauty of digital camera. This technology they found is awesome. I have my camcorder for a long time now and I love it. But I'm having the same problem with yours. I rarely develop them though but from my past hard pictures, i mean those that were develop were not that good compared when you look at the PC and on the camera itself. I'm not good in photo stuff so I have no I idea how to fix it myself. So the last time I develop some pictures, I ask the guy who process my photos that it's a little not good when it comes out so he did something about. So maybe you just have to show your developed pictures to the photo shop and make them edit it. you to a shop that can edit them first.
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@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
20 Apr 08
WEll I suppose it depends on the camera. But now there are lots of good digital cameras out there. And the colors are great when printed.
Also I guess that the other good thing about it is that editing those pictures is something that can be done easily, so you can get exactly the results you want.
Digital cameras give us a lot more freedom than film in terms of the things that you pointed out already - being able to see the picture right away thus knowing if you want to re do it or not, not having to carry all the film around with you, etc. etc. etc.
The smaller details that are not that positive are not that negative because we can fix them, so in the end, digital cameras are great in my opinion.
Mind you I still have my old one and use it sometimes but for everyday photos for those times when I wasn't even counting of taking that picture it's great to be able to carry my digital camera along.
Personally I haven't felt a problem with printed photos from my digital camera, but I do edit some of them before I print them so maybe that is the difference you are finding.
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
20 Apr 08
Guess you have to take the good with the bad, don't we?!!
I had some developed directly without editing and they came out okay, only I would knw the difference. THen I had some more made and the color was not very good. So I spent yesterday taking all fo them and putting them into my photo editor - MIcrosoft Picture IT 2000 - it is a great and easy program to use, but it took me a few hours to get them all in there, edited, named and stored as I need them - that in itself was a drudging nightmare and having to put them in folders and all -maybe I should have done just one called 2008 and put them and those to come in one folder. THen spent the next 3 hours trying to figure how to copy them from hard drive My DOcuments to a disk CD wouldn't take them, so I tried a DVD and probelm after problem! THink I'll go make a grilled cheese and try again this morning!
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@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
20 Apr 08
Yes.. basically with everything. We always have to take the good with the bad:)
I have picture it too, but I also have a lot of other programs that work well for keeping all the pictures.
I think that once we get frustrated taking a break for a grilled cheese is always a good idea :):):)
@johnandspike (8)
•
18 Apr 08
the newcamera are way better. and u have alot more stuff on the camera to make your picture better
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
18 Apr 08
I got mine for christmas last year so it is new, and I have tired all the optional settings like Indoor, Portrait, landscape,night shot, kids and animals - the settings are supposedly to accomodate different light settings and I use them but havent' had any luck. I have even thought that it has so many options to use, that it is so much work when my 35mm just point and shoot and the picture was great! I'll keep working on it tho. I do like to be able to see the pic once taken so I can see if I need to take it again. If it'd only develope like it shows on the camera, I'd be singin' in the rain!
