love811
16th of February 2005 (Wed), 08:38
Mine is a powershot a75 and when I first bought it a couple of months ago, I used the auto mode but eventually went to P mode and adjusted the exposure value to +2/3 while other settings were on auto. I did this because on auto mode, pics taken looked good when viewed on the LCD and the tv but when transferred to my pc (running on a Win Xp with SP2 installed) looked darker.
I read in another forum that this guy said that one of the probable cause for darker images was
"Having the same problem with a fujifilm camera - When I download to a Windows XP with SP2 installed - I get dark images, When I then send the pic through MSN toanother PC here running Windows 2000, or download the image straight to it, the picture is fine. So far what I seem to have found on the net is Microsoft has apparently changed the ICC colour profiles, whether this is the case or not I dont know. What I do know is that the images used to be perfect, however, I cant remember whether they were perfect before SP2 or SP1. There does seem to be a LOT of people having the same problem though, and although I use the same solution as you ReF, I find it unacceptable that we should have the need to do this..."
Do you really think that on auto mode, the pics taken were as good as how it looked on the LCD and the transfer to a computer running on an OS with Win XP is making the pics darker?
I read in another forum that this guy said that one of the probable cause for darker images was
"Having the same problem with a fujifilm camera - When I download to a Windows XP with SP2 installed - I get dark images, When I then send the pic through MSN toanother PC here running Windows 2000, or download the image straight to it, the picture is fine. So far what I seem to have found on the net is Microsoft has apparently changed the ICC colour profiles, whether this is the case or not I dont know. What I do know is that the images used to be perfect, however, I cant remember whether they were perfect before SP2 or SP1. There does seem to be a LOT of people having the same problem though, and although I use the same solution as you ReF, I find it unacceptable that we should have the need to do this..."
Do you really think that on auto mode, the pics taken were as good as how it looked on the LCD and the transfer to a computer running on an OS with Win XP is making the pics darker?