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ANYONE OPERATING A CANON-A-85???

Mar 15, 2005 12:01PM PST

Anyone has a Canon A-85 and has some experiance with it
and would like to help with getting this to produce pics I expected? please reply to this request.
my pics look like colored photo copy etc.

thanx
mannyE

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Canon A85
Mar 15, 2005 12:34PM PST

If you are talking about prints - it sounds like you do not have the printer set correctly.

The printer must be set for glossy photo paper, and best quality. And of course you must use photo paper.

If you can print an 8 x 10 photo in less than a minute, the printer is not set correctly. It should take closer to two minutes.


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If you are talking about viewing the photos on the monitor....more information is needed.

Such as size of the image (i.e. 2048x1536) and file size (i.e. xx megabytes)

Also, do the photos look OK when viewed on the camera LCD?

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canon A-85
Mar 15, 2005 9:45PM PST

Thanks for trying to help me , I'm having frustrating day with this situation...
2) I dont print them myself, I give them in to process they do it on premises, I choose matte over glossy.
3) The pics look good on the Lcd but when printing they appear like someone would take a pic make a color copy, to much detail color variation ..

MannyE

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Canon A-85
Mar 15, 2005 11:09PM PST

You should first, try a different place for printing.
A comparison might prove worthwhile.


General information for printing:

Set your camera to take 4 meg photos (2272x1704)
The A85 has three quality levels:
...Super Fine, Fine, Normal
......Set it to Fine or Super Fine

With the A85, it is easy to accidently turn the selection knob on the top. Make sure that it is in Auto mode each time before using the camera.

If none of this helps try posting a photo on the internet and include a link to the photo, so that the Forum can see the photo.

If you do not have a place to put a photo on the internet you might try:

www.photobucket.com

It is free and they permit linking.
In fact they put the link name right under the photo.

Here is an example:
Notice to dial-up users - the file size is 161K

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/randol9p9/TBB4.jpg

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