On your G15

I bought one tried it, it was used but what in the world happened? Shot this in Auto mode no detail and very noisey....
http://www.jenshep.com​/Jens-Eyes/i-MjDXqqR/A

Could you post the photo directly to this forum so that we can see the EXIF info and maybe spot the problem?

teekay wrote in post #16881988
Could you post the photo directly to this forum so that we can see the EXIF info and maybe spot the problem?

Teekay, not sure on how to upload them here so I made a gallery http://www.smugmug.com​/gallery/n-JGMk7/i-bQLLdcQ/A click that link and look for the i symbol at the bottom and it will give the EXIF info. Thanks

From the exif : Digital zoom 3.1x

Max98 wrote in post #16882866
From the exif : Digital zoom 3.1x

Elaborate for me Max, was it out of focus on the wrong zoom?

Marco315 wrote in post #16882099
.... Smigmug...look for the i symbol at the bottom and it will give the EXIF info...

Thanks - I never noticed that feature is available on the site even though I use Smugmug myself.

As Max98 has noted, you were using digital zoom in that photo and explains the loss of quality.

Many people disable that feature on their cameras since digitally zooming merely magnifies the image by inserting pixels (sort of).

For example, look at any image on your computer and then zoom in more and more using your image editing program (or browser zooming function etc.) and you will see the quality decrease as the image grows bigger and bigger on the screen - that's "digital zoom".

teekay wrote in post #16883542
Thanks - I never noticed that feature is available on the site even though I use Smugmug myself.

As Max98 has noted, you were using digital zoom in that photo and explains the loss of quality.

Many people disable that feature on their cameras since digitally zooming merely magnifies the image by inserting pixels (sort of).

For example, look at any image on your computer and then zoom in more and more using your image editing program (or browser zooming function etc.) and you will see the quality decrease as the image grows bigger and bigger on the screen - that's "digital zoom".

so to make sure my dumb butt understands if you use digital zoom you get distortion and noise. So how in the world would you zoom a G15 without using the digital zoom? Smugmug is great been using it for years. Thanks for the help.

Marco315 wrote in post #16883707
so to make sure my dumb butt understands if you use digital zoom you get distortion and noise. So how in the world would you zoom a G15 without using the digital zoom? Smugmug is great been using it for years. Thanks for the help.

Read pages 63 and 81 in your user guide. Canon used to include a chart showing the digital zoom ranges, as well as explaining the Yellow and Blue range indicators better.

Edit: They used to recommend reducing the resolution size to M1 or M2 to reduce the fuzzy/grainy results, and thus change yellow or blue indicators to white.

Dennis

denncald wrote in post #16883739
Read pages 63 and 81 in your user guide. Canon used to include a chart showing the digital zoom ranges, as well as explaining the Yellow and Blue range indicators better.

Dennis

Thanks Dennis I see what I did wrong now. I bought that camera used it came with nothing no manual, no software, no USB cable, nothing but a battery and charger. I'm so use to shooting my SLR getting use to PS is different.

Marco315 wrote in post #16883874
Thanks Dennis

Also see the Edit I just added before you posted your reply. You're welcome. You are just basically cropping the sensor in-camera with digital zoom, so most recommend shooting max optical zoom plus RAW, and then crop in your photo editing software on your computer. I've taken some good Jpeg digital zoom results, but it helps to have good lighting.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/bGcv​xg

Marco315 wrote in post #16883707
....So how in the world would you zoom a G15 without using the digital zoom?....

Turn on your G15 and set it in AUTO. Now use the zoom lever and you will see the lens moving back and forth, optically changing the focal length - i.e. optically zooming, and on the LCD screen you will see the white line at the top (zoom indicator) moving back and forth.

Then if you keep zooming in past the 5x optical zoom limit you will see the zoom indicator change colour to yellow and finally blue but the lens isn't moving. That shows you are digitally zooming past the optical limit up to about 20x and your resulting image will be getting progressively grainier.

When in AUTO mode you can disable digital zoom - it's the first option in the shooting menu.

teekay wrote in post #16884462
Turn on your G15 and set it in AUTO. Now use the zoom lever and you will see the lens moving back and forth, optically changing the focal length - i.e. optically zooming, and on the LCD screen you will see the white line at the top (zoom indicator) moving back and forth.

Then if you keep zooming in past the 5x optical zoom limit you will see the zoom indicator change colour to yellow and finally blue but the lens isn't moving. That shows you are digitally zooming past the optical limit up to about 20x and your resulting image will be getting progressively grainier.

When in AUTO mode you can disable digital zoom - it's the first option in the shooting menu.

Thank you so very much