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Equipment & Techniques => Digital Cameras & Shooting Techniques => Topic started by: jettx on March 01, 2007, 05:47:00 pm

Title: xti to computer image discrepancy
Post by: jettx on March 01, 2007, 05:47:00 pm

i'm using a canon xti.
for some reason, when i view my pictures on the camera lcd they are much brighter than when i view them on my computer.
i'm quite certain i did not have this problem before

just as a note: it seems to be a problem with contrast rather than simply the lcd's brightness

anyone have any suggestions, ideas on how to fix this?
thanks

Title: xti to computer image discrepancy
Post by: jorgedelfino on March 01, 2007, 08:24:16 pm

Your camera is probably set for a different color space than your monitor,  need to calibrate monitor to begin with.
There is plenty on the subjects right here on LL

Title: xti to computer image discrepancy
Post by: jettx on March 01, 2007, 09:07:13 pm

i suppose that is a  possibility.. but this hasnt been a problem in the past.. and i havent made any changes to my monitor nor my camera..

will check it out though.
thank you

Title: xti to computer image discrepancy
Post by: jettx on March 04, 2007, 02:23:38 pm

hi, i've set both my monitor and camera to srgb and still have the same problem..
i dont have any monitor calibration tools and dont intend to buy any, what can i do?

thanks for the help

Title: xti to computer image discrepancy
Post by: DarkPenguin on March 04, 2007, 03:30:36 pm

It isn't going to happen.

The rear lcd simply isn't accurate.  Beyond which there is no way of knowing if your monitor is accurate or not as you've stated you've no profiling tools and do not intend to buy any.

Perhaps with the changing of seasons your lighting is different enough that the displays no longer appear to match.  But as a general rule you shouldn't expect them to.  Use the histogram to judge exposure.

Title: xti to computer image discrepancy
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on March 04, 2007, 04:15:57 pm

I'm with Dark on this. The only thing I use the image on the LCD for on my 5D is to know whether I was pointing the camera in the right general direction. What I look at more carefully is the histogram. That's useful.

Title: xti to computer image discrepancy
Post by: jettx on March 07, 2007, 09:29:19 pm

thanks for the responses
guess it's time for me to finally put that histogram to use