Fujifilm s4000 washed out oil-painting effect. help!

jeffuk

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31 Jul 2011 - 2:08 PM

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Hi All,

Just got a s4000, after having an old s7000, the picture quality is just, odd. See attached, macro shot; this is straight from the memory card; and looks like it's had a comedy oil painting effect applied to it.

Is this something I can fix, or is this as good as this camera is going to get?

Jeff.

jeffuk

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31 Jul 2011 - 2:59 PM

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Thanks for your reply.

The above is on auto mode, so not sure of the settings, Basically it seems to has this effect to a greater or lesser extent on all photos.

The attached is cropped, but otherwise unedited.

Again, full auto, good sunlight.





EXIF data says:

Width 4288
Height 3216
File Size 1884091
Camera FUJIFILM
Model FinePix S4000
ISO 64
Exposure 1/150 sec
Aperture 9.0
Focal Length 5mm
Flash Used false
White Balance 0
Metering Mode 5
Exposure Programme 2
CCD Width 6.1327233
Exposure Bias 0.0
Focal Plane X-Resolution 6992.0
Focal Plane Resolution Unit 3.0
Date and Time (Original) 2011:07:31 11:55:14
Colour Space 1
X-Resolution 72.0
Y-Resolution 72.0
Resolution Unit 2
Software Digital Camera FinePix S4000 Ver1.01
Date and Time 2011:07:31 11:55:14
YCbCr Positioning 2
Date and Time (Digitised) 2011:07:31 11:55:14
Compressed Bits Per Pixel 4.0
Brightness 9.2
Max Aperture 3.26
Light Source 0
Sensing Method 2
Custom Rendered 0
Exposure Mode 0
Focal Length (in 35 mm film) 29
Scene Capture Type 0
Sharpness 0
Subject Distance Range 0
Interoperability Index R98
Related Image Width 4288
Related Image Height 3216
Time Zone Offset 0, 0, 0
Time Zone Minutes 0, 0, 0

jeffuk

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31 Jul 2011 - 3:31 PM

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https://picasaweb.google.com/jeffuk/S4000#

For your perusal

I'm happy (excited?) to be proven wrong, but I just feel it has an artificial look when zoomed in, and for a 14MP camera I'd hope to be able to crop and zoom and the photos to still maintain a reasonable level of quality.

Jestertheclown

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31 Jul 2011 - 3:58 PM

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I'd agree with all of that Sam.

Remember also that we're looking at an upload of an upload and even if it's posted as it originally came straight from the camera, there will almost certainly have been some degredation between there and here.
I've found that quite a number of my shots look quite different on here compared to the way they do on my computer.
That applies particularly to any mods. I upload in the CG. They hardly ever reproduce as I want them to.

As for your butterfly, you describe it as "macro." If you were using the macro setting on the camera (bearing in mind, I'm using mine for reference and it may be slightly different), then I'd say you were too far away from the subject for the camera to capture it succesfully. I think that for the macro settings to work, you need to be within just a few inches of the subject.
And when it does work, it works really well. It's one of the S5700's strongest points. That's probably true of yours too.
That doesn't really explain the strange colours although as the whites in the centre are blown, perhaps we could put it down to its exposure? I'm not really sure.

Jestertheclown

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31 Jul 2011 - 8:05 PM

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I've always avoided using the digital zoom on mine.
I found that I could get better shots staying within the limits of the optical zoom and then cropping the bit I wanted. Almost everything in my Pf's been taken with an S5700 and using that method.
I suggest thouigh, that you get away from using the "auto" setting as it is very much a jack-of-all-trades and whilst it wil give you good(ish) results in most situations, you'll be missing out an a lot of oportunities where you could do better.
I keep mine set to "P" as a matter of course and sometimes use "aperture", depending on what I'm doing.
Keep the histogram in the viewfinder and learn to recognise what it's telling you and you won't go far wrong.

Bren.

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31 Jul 2011 - 9:07 PM

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ll is not lost . . .

. . . Photoshop is your friend!

joshwa (ePHOTOzine Staff)

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31 Jul 2011 - 10:28 PM

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See our S3200 review... it's the same camera (same sensor, image processing etc) but with less zoom. looking at your pictures, it looks like you may have a poor example of the camera (poor quality control? defective lens?) as the garden shot is significantly softer on the left of the image than the right hand side. (Had the same thing with the Fuji F550).

morfeus333

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9 Sep 2011 - 6:26 PM

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Hey, try this! ...

Set the camera to fine image quality and in the "sharpness" section to select the lowest.
wala! paint effect on the images reduced by 90%

for me is a very good camera.

I apologize for my bad English.