Re: FN-FORUM: Photo quality problem

date posted 27th July 2005 18:20

>> I'm producing a brochure for a client. To save costs, rather than buy
>> photography from image libraries, or commission a photographer, the MD
>> has suggested he supplies the pics.
>> He has owns a new =A34,800 (minus lens!) Canon EOS 1-DS digital SLR, so I
>> thought great, no problem. Unfortunately, the pics are cr*p - pale,
>> overexposed and out of focus.
>> I know he skimped on the lens and uses a Sigma zoom. I'm guessing this
>> is problem - anyone know of any issues with third party lenses and Canon=
?

>The pale, overexposed look could be down to poor white balance
>correction. Poor focus - not necessarily the lens. Manual focus is
>only as good as the person shooting and auto focus modes operate in so
>many different ways that it could just as easily be a problem there.
>True - the purist would say that using a non-prime, third party lens is
>going to give you inferior shots but if used in the middle of the focal
>length and aperture ranges will give you results that most people would
>find perfectly suitable. What are the shots of? What will they be
>used for (print, web, posters etc?)

Thanks Jez - the shots are to be included in the company's corporate
brochure - litho printed, full colour, some at A4 + bleed size - the pics
really do have to be top quality...

I kind of discounted manual focussing, as by the law of averages, one or tw=
o
would surely have been in focus - he's supplied about 20 so far, but they
all look soft! =20
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The shots are architecture/construction based - building sites, equipment,
site engineers, finished building, close ups of equipment - quite a varied
lot really.=20

Niels

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