Camera Resolution

[the_cat_keeper]

Maybe... or I need new glasses.

Thanks again,
Cat.

 

[scubadobadoo]

That shot looks pretty clear to me! Now maybe you have cropped to get that nudie to look bigger and that is what is causing the grain? If your camera had more megapixels that would help when cropping.

 

[jonnythan]

Have you altered that image in ANY way before making it your background?

 

[pipedope]

You might check the camera settings to be sure that you are shooting at the resolution you want.
Sometimes I set my camera to take 1Mp pictures to get more on a card and then forget to change it when I want a high quality pic.

BTW. That is a great pic!

 

[RiotNrrd]

Hey there - any chance that the color depth of your display is too low?

Assuming you are using a PC - right click on the desktop, go to properties, and verify that the settings shows "color quality" or "color depth" of 16 bit or 24 bit (thousands/millions, or 65,000/1.6m). If for some reason, your display is set to 4 bit (16 color) or 8 bit (256 color), that might look bad.

Nice pic on my monitor.

Riot

 

[sprain]

Think the guys here covered most of the reasons. Try to make sure you take your pictures in superfine mode as well if you have not done so. Makes a whole lot of difference. I know coz for 1 trip I set it wrongly, and all the pictures are indeed grainy.

I'm a S1 user too, and 2048X1536 should be enough. Not much room for cropping though...

 

[Halthron]

Could you be stretching the image when using it in the background? I recall at least three options when setting a background: 1) Tile, 2) Center and 3) Stretch which would resize the image so that it fills the whole screen. While the image is fine as posted, if you take a 500x670 image and stretch it to cover a 1280x1024 or a 1024x768 (two common resolutions) screen, it may look a bit grainy.

 

[the_cat_keeper]

That shot looks pretty clear to me! Now maybe you have cropped to get that nudie to look bigger and that is what is causing the grain? If your camera had more megapixels that would help when cropping.

The picture has not been cropped...

 

[the_cat_keeper]

Have you altered that image in ANY way before making it your background?

No, not at all.

 

[the_cat_keeper]

You might check the camera settings to be sure that you are shooting at the resolution you want.
Sometimes I set my camera to take 1Mp pictures to get more on a card and then forget to change it when I want a high quality pic.

BTW. That is a great pic!

Thank you :blush:... you may have hit it right on the nail. I just checked my resolution and I had it set at 1600 x 1200. This is probably too small? What does most people set their resolution at?