Image quality reduces when transferred from digital camera?
People, i need help. The image quality reduces when i transfer pictures from dslr to laptop or cellphone.
The pictures look great in camera and of good quality but when i transfer them to other device for edit or simply viewing, they look like as if they are taken from a random camera.
I have nikon d5300.
No, your computer's bigger screen allows you to see the flaws better.
Have you taken in account the screen sizes? You can take an image of poor quality and display it on a small screen and it will look good, display it on a bigger screen and you start to notice the poor quality.
Time for you to read the manual.
What you see in the computer is what the picture really looks like. The LCD of the camera or cellphone is too small and will hide most errors on the photo. To be sure that you get the best picture quality possible, learn photography.
You should also make sure that the method you are using to copy the picture from the camera to the computer does not involve changing picture quality. The best way to do this is to use a USB card reader to connect the camera's memory card directly to the computer's USB slot then use Windows Explorer or (Mac) Finder to do the copying.
One way to see the quality of the image in the camera is to zoom in during playback. This will show you much better the flaws. See page 142 of your manual.
Learn from the flaws you see on your computer. Are you not careful with the focus? I like Single-point focus to get the focus on what I want. See page 53 of your manual.
One simple question: Are you using the maximum quality setting of your digital camera? Then when you transfer to your phone you have to reduce the file or it is reduced in order for the file size to fit on the phone? Reducing file size takes away from quality greatly!
Are you shooting in raw format or jpeg? The first time I opened up a raw file into an image editor, I said WTF! The camera applies a crude jpeg process to the image for display on it's screen, but when they are opened into an editor, there's no processing done and the image looks pretty bland. Hope this helps.
What exactly is your workflow process? It's possible that if, for example, you're using Lightroom and are exporting the images that Lightroom is lowering the resolution.
Also, what color space are you using? A color space defines the range of colors that will be in the photo. Some color spaces have much more colors than others. Pro Photo has the most, while sRGB has much less. It therefore seems like using Pro Photo to be the best option, but not so fast.
I normally use Pro Photo or AdobeRGB. However, when I'm sending images to someone, printing it or uploading to the web, I have to change it to sRGB. Images being viewed on a browser that are not using the sRGB color space will show poorly. Why? Because browsers are specifically designed to render the sRGB color space and they don't know how to deal with the extra colors in the other spaces which have a larger color gamut. Therefore if you want your photos to look as close as possible to the original from device to device, it's best to use sRGB.
What software or process are you using for the transfer. It's possibly downsizing your photos. On the other hand, it may simply be your viewing software that is not showing the photos in full resolution. Are you sure you are actually shooting your photos in high resolution? It's hard to tell when looking at the camera's LCD screen.
Of course, on a cell phone, your photos are ALWAYS downsized to fit the small screen size.