Re: fuji finepix 810


Brian wrote:
> "Mike Henley" <casioculture@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>
>
> > Thanks for the reply Mike.
> As you say I am using the cradle but will heed your advice.
> btw. how do you find this camera? I am still getting used to it and find
> some photos a little blurred (may be I am shaking )
> any tips ?
> Brian

Hi. A very fine camera, though keep in mind that it's different from
most other cameras; other cameras give you a 'final' image, whereas the
f810 give you an image optimised for editing, which in my opinion is
better than a 'final' image.

I can answer you in detail but I'll try to keep the answer brief and
simple.

- Not sure what you mean by photos being a little blurred, but if this
is something you're getting from the 12mp photos then I suggest you
downsize them to 6-8mp and you'll likely get a better result.
- If you find some photos a little dark you may want to adjust them
with a levels layer, a gamma curve layer, or adjusting the histogram
(find a gimp tutorial about adjusting levels, gamma curve, or
histogram)
- A an easy way to do the above two is to download Picasa from Google
and use that, there's a slider on the left that allows you to adjust
the 'light' or 'shade' in the image, I don't remember what it was
called in picasa, but that was a simple and handy way to do so, and you
can lighten up the dark images to your liking. You can also use picasa
to resize down to 6-8mp.
- If you want to get a little technical about it and hope for possibly
better results you can use imagemagick to downsize the images. There's
a recent thread in this newsgroup that I started about it, and some
noted that it was better than photoshop for downsizing.
- If you're shooting RAW then you can use DCRAW, a commandline utility,
again there was a recent thread that I started about it.
- Alternatively, if you're shooting RAW you can use s7raw
- You can use photoshop CS2 or the gimp (note though that the free
dcraw and imagemagick can give better results than photoshop)


http://www.aim-dtp.net/aim/digicam/dcraw/
http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-PaloAlto/9919/s7raw.html
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
http://www.xs4all.nl/~bvdwolf/main/foto/down_sample/example1.htm
http://www.insflug.org/raw/software/download/windows.php3
http://www.gimp.org/windows/



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