Lighting on LCD and photos does not match (G2)

On my G1 the LCD and the Final photo are dead on. (for lighting looks ect. well except for chomatic ab...) ANyway, my new canon G2 the photos are much darker than the thumbnails/LCD.

Has anyone else seen this?

Is this a problem?

Thanks.

Turn your LCD brightness to low, it should help a little, but LCD are supposed to be brighter than the final image. After a while, you will get used to it.

Tony

ron_hubscher said:

On my G1 the LCD and the Final photo are dead on. (for lighting
looks ect. well except for chomatic ab...) ANyway, my new canon
G2 the photos are much darker than the thumbnails/LCD.

Has anyone else seen this?

Is this a problem?

Thanks.

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ron_hubscher said:

On my G1 the LCD and the Final photo are dead on. (for lighting
looks ect. well except for chomatic ab...) ANyway, my new canon
G2 the photos are much darker than the thumbnails/LCD.

Has anyone else seen this?

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This hasn't been my experience. With the G1 I found the LCD and the actual photo were rarely similar - usually the final image was considerably darker. I've found this is much improved on the G2, which is usually much closer between the LCD and final image (although sometimes I do still find the final image is darker, but not as extreme as with the G1).

Cheers
Martin
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ron_hubscher said:

On my G1 the LCD and the Final photo are dead on. (for lighting
looks ect. well except for chomatic ab...) ANyway, my new canon
G2 the photos are much darker than the thumbnails/LCD.

Has anyone else seen this?

Is this a problem?

Thanks.

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I have definitely found this the case. Also, when I open images in Photoshop, they appear lighter, more like the LCD picture (before altering)!!!

Screemer

I don't remember the G1 but the pics on the G2 LCD (at low brightness setting) definitely look brighter than it appears in PS LE.

ron_hubscher said:

...ANyway, my new canon
G2 the photos are much darker than the thumbnails/LCD.

Has anyone else seen this?

Is this a problem?

Thanks.

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PhotoShop images appear about ½ stop lighter than any other viewing method and on a properly aligned system it is PhotoShop that is off. This is one of those annoyances that you need to learn to compensate for.

Morris

Justme said:

ron_hubscher said:

...ANyway, my new canon
G2 the photos are much darker than the thumbnails/LCD.

Has anyone else seen this?

Is this a problem?

Thanks.

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Thanks for everyones input. But...

1) it is on "low" setting
2) My G1 is dead on between the two images. (or pretty close)

3) This camers is REAL bad. The LCD has a way more over exposed thumbnail than the picture.

Note: I can download the thumbnails as well as the images. The thumbnails are not the same as the image. The exposure setting is different. I do a lot of mid to low light shooting, and a small difference translates to a big one.

ron_hubscher said:

On my G1 the LCD and the Final photo are dead on. (for lighting
looks ect. well except for chomatic ab...) ANyway, my new canon
G2 the photos are much darker than the thumbnails/LCD.

Has anyone else seen this?

Is this a problem?

Thanks.

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I also found that turning down the LCD brightness helps match the image on the LCD to the actual photo although by no means is it perfect. It's just something I have to remember when taking a picture.

As for the Photoshop comment someone made earlier, I too grew frustrated with Photoshop making my images look brighter than they actually were when printed or when viewed with another image viewer like IrfanView. This is especially frustrating when you are trying to adjust contrast, saturation, and brightness based on what you see in Photoshop to later find out that your image is still too dark.

The solution I eventually found was to turn Photoshop's color management off. By default, I believe it is set to "Web Graphics". To turn it off, go to the Edit menu and on the bottom click on Color Settings. In the top drop down menu, change Web Graphics to Color Management Off.

I find my images in Photoshop now much more closely match the images I see in other image viewers.
Emese--Pics: http://www.pbase.com/egaal/galleries

I'm just curious if you convert your images to sRGB upon opening in Photohop. I think that, in reality, Photoshop (with a well-calibrated monitor) is "On" and it's everything else that's "off".

I get very good color from Photoshop/Irfanview (identical) and my printed images. I wouldn't expect a tiny LCD display to give me very accurate info.

My Euro 2c

Willie

Emese Gaal said:

I also found that turning down the LCD brightness helps match the
image on the LCD to the actual photo although by no means is it
perfect. It's just something I have to remember when taking a

picture.--Willie G.Kulmbach. GermanyCanon G2- my eyeglasses are from Carl Zeiss - http://www.pbase.com/effzee

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Also set your monitor's white point to 6500 degrees K. This will more closely match the temperature of daylight. It may take some getting used to, but you should notice a closer match to what will actually be printed on paper (viewed under incandescent light). Most monitors default to 9000 or so which makes their white point much to blue (or cool) for my taste.

-Tom