Canon Ixus technical question ?

[Gecko]

Just back from Lands End and I'm a bit miffed at the quality of the digital pics I took on my 8 month old Canon Ixus 430.

In daylight without flash all the pics seem either a bit 'washed out' or have a blue tinge to them. With Flash they colours seem fine .

Any ideas what might be wrong ? I guess it must be a setting somewhere but short of reading the whole 200 page handbook I don't know where to begin.


This pic was taken in daylight - not directly into the sun and with flash set on auto - so it didn't flash when I took the picture.

 

[Gecko]

This was taken without changing any of the settings.....it's better than the first but by no means good.

 

[Gecko]

Indoors with the flash it seems fine.....less can be said about the subject matter

 

[MikeO]

First one looks like it was taken with the 'Tungsten Light' setting.

Have a skim through the manual. Skip big words. None of them are in joined up writing.

Mike

 

[MasterDabber]

Might be worth looking at the "White Balance" settings..

 

[Possu]

AWB (All White Balance) settings or the exposure time.

If the Ixus is like any of the other Canon digicams (I have an A510), rotate the dial until you get the on screen option to change exposure time and/or focal length. To adjust these settings, you probably use the left & right arrow buttons that you also use to scroll through images you've already taken?

 

[(RIP) Kaister]

AWB=average white balance

The camera decides what is white or not and shifts all the other colours accordingly.

Use auto setting or switch to manual then function then AWB - or as needed.

Auto everything is good to use for a while,though till you get used to it.

 

[-Robbo-]

Gecko do you not have an "AUTO" setting on the camera? I have a Canon G5 and just leave it on "AUTO" all the time and have never taken a bad picture apart from when I am pished that is

 

[Gecko]

Thanks Guys - I think I figured out what the problem was. On the top of the camera there is indeed a dial to select the different modes for the camera - you can choose auto/manual/videa/panorama and it was on manual mode without me having noticed. This would explain the different quality of the pictures depending on the light conditions at that specific moment. I'll try a couple of test shots but it seems so obvious that I should have noticed it but I never normally touch that dial so I guess it was moved by accident.

Right..... now if everyone could just reassemble at Lands Ebd next weekend so I can retake a few of the pictures I screwed up.......