I am new to digital photography, but after much research decided to buy the Olympus C2000. (The other choice was the Nikon Coolpix 950)The pictures look great when viewed on the camera's LCD or on the TV, but when I download them onto my PC, they are all very dark and the color balance seems to be very red. Am I doing something wrong? I have had to use various software to brighten up the pictures. I desperately need help, as the process is very time consuming!

-- Keith Heah (keith@ses.com.sg), September 01, 1999

Answers

If the images look good on the LCD and your TV then It sounds like the problem is with your monitor. I have a C-2000 as well and based on your description of the problem I'd be surprised if the camera (or the download to the computer) was causing this problem. Does the problem only affect images viewed on the monitor, or printed images also? Note that if images are too dark or too light when printing, then you likely neeed to adjust the 'gamma' value in your image editing/printing software to calibrate it to your specific printer. You would only need to do this once.

Frank

-- Frank Dittmann (dittmann@pathcom.com), September 01, 1999.

I have a similar experience, but found that it is quite subjective to the brightness of your LCD on the C2000Z. The best way is to try and calibrate what you see on the LCD (via the brightness setting of the C2000Z) to that of what you get on the monitor...

Hope this helps. However, in my experience, this is not a complete solution as one tends to adjust the brightness of the LCD based on the current ambient light intensity. Hence, you may find it impossible to maintain a calibrated brightness setting of your LCD in areas of differing ambient light intensities...

-- Wymun Kong (wymun@magix.com.sg), September 02, 1999.

I noticed the same thing on my Oly 2000 several months ago when I first bought it. As I used it more, and experimented around, I discovered that it was primarily because of the `averaging' exposure mode. It only happened in very, very bright daylight scenes with a lot of sky in the picture. Now, I can predict from experience when this is going to happen, and set the camera to spot metering, or just bump the exposure up by about .7 or so.

-- Kirby Johnson (kjohnson@packet.net), September 14, 1999.