Hi,

that's that sorted then.. cheers for the help.

Now all I have to do is to adjust all the images so that look correct with the new settings. The only real change (except for the birthday party last weekend, which I'll redo from scratch) is the gamma correction. Is there someway of doing that by the same amount over a whole folder of images? I've got Irfan View, and I beleive that does batches, but I'll have to have a read up first.

Once done, I can always hand check and do final adjustments where necessary.

Cheers

Liam

Hi,




sorry if this is getting tedious, but this is my next attempt. I think it may be that the monitor is getting on a bit. Someone at work is getting rid of a 17" CRT (HP), that is a lot newer, and for free, so if I can get that I may stand a chance. The main problem with wiziwig and this monitor is the brightness and contrast settings (at the beginning of the wizard); I haven't seen any black squares inside the bigger black squares??? and I can quite clearly see the grey squares inside the white, throughout the full extent of the contrast range on this monitor???

Hopefully this is getting closer though.

Cheers for indulging me

Cheers

Liam

I'm not doing too well here. This looks good on my monitor now, but everything else looks washed out. This could be just that I'm not used to it.

The reds tend to look more orange.. ish.

I've tried to match up by eye, the red PENTAX on the box from my DL, and it looks like this..




roughly.

HTML f60124

RGB 246,1,36

Is that close??

Cheers

Liam

Hi,

and thanks for checking this out. So it wasn't paranoia after all, or to quote..

"Just because you're paranoid, doesn't necessarily mean that no one is out to get you!"

Matt,

I think the first thing to do is to create a new profile, using your tips. I can't remember exactly what the settings were now. I'm using a 17" HP Ultra VGA 1280 CRT monitor, circa 1995.

Peter,

I've set the black and white points via the histogram, so it must be the midtones that I've got wrong. These I've adjusted via the gamma correction on the histogram, but doing this visually, on what I thought at the time was a calibrated monitor.. has exacerbated the problem so as I mentioned above, the first thing to do is to create a new profile.. properly, and go from there.

I'll try a new profile and post up the results for a comparison a little later.
I know I can compare it to the above image, as an approximation anyway, but if one or both of you could then double check for me, I'd be grateful.


Cheers

Liam

Hi all,

I took this in Bruges a few weeks ago..




and processed it on my home machine, the monitor of which has been calibrated with WyzyWig. I liked it enough to put up as the desktop theme on my work machine.. and it's a bit washed out. Could someone with a calibrated monitor just let me know if it looks okay please. I did say paranoia..

Cheers

Liam

Hi all,

http://interact10ways.com/usa/information_interactive.htm

just keep clicking the mouse.. you'll see what I mean.. pretty darned good; wish I'd thought of it..

Cheers

Liam

Hi,

http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/165894/art/pentax/af540fgz-flash.html

Cheers

Liam

Great news,

Cheers

Liam

Hi valleyclose, and welcome to the forum.

The first thing to check is that the computer is ercognising the camera as a drive. Once you've connected the camera, go to My Computer and check to see if you've got an extra drive. It will usually come up as a removable drive. If so, double click it to open, and search the folder(s) for your images.

If you don't see the new drive, then the first thing to do would be to reinstall the software that came with the camera, and see if that works.

Third, get hold of a card reader, and check to see that the card can be read. It's possible that the card could have been corrupted, or that one or more of the connectors on the card has some corrosion on it, from being left for that amount of time.

This list isn't exhaustive, so try the above and let us know how you get on. There are better people than me here, so we'll get you sorted out if we can.

Cheers

Liam

Hi,

IIRC, in the old B&W films, the girls used to use green make up because it gave a very good black when shot. Perhaps that is the reason for green filters doing the job??

Cheers

Liam