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Irulan - 10 May 2005 02:02 GMT

Well, my digital camera arrived today and I've been taking pictures of my
handsome boy all day. I do have a question, though, maybe those who have
experience with these things can help out.

The camera is a Vivitar Vivicam 3935, one of their top of the line. I
noticed though that the pictures don't come out too sharp. I have the
setting to Fine (Fine, Normal, Economy are the choices). The pictures are
fine but blurry. I can go MACRO which is the closest and I have set
SHARPNESS to the highest setting. How do I make the pictures sharper
especially the closeups?

Jazz & I would like to thank you in advance. He can hardly wait to have his
pictures uploaded to the web.
Jazz & his mama

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Ted Davis - 10 May 2005 02:26 GMT

>Well, my digital camera arrived today and I've been taking pictures of my
>handsome boy all day. I do have a question, though, maybe those who have
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>pictures uploaded to the web.
>Jazz & his mama

First, try it with everything set to 'normal' (sharpness is likely to
be an edge enhancement process that tends to make pictures look bad;
the other controls the amount of loss in the JPEG encoding).

Then be sure the autofocus is enabled and working ... and that there
are cat edges in the area the autofocus senses. A couple of my cats
defeat autofocus every time - there just isn't enough contrast. Test
the autofocus with a brick wall or something similar. I have never
been able consistently to get good pictures of cats without manual
focus, and manual exposure control combined with incident light
metering, though some of my cats photograph well enough with an
automatic camera.

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William Hamblen - 10 May 2005 02:56 GMT

>The camera is a Vivitar Vivicam 3935, one of their top of the line. I
>noticed though that the pictures don't come out too sharp. I have the
>setting to Fine (Fine, Normal, Economy are the choices). The pictures are
>fine but blurry. I can go MACRO which is the closest and I have set
>SHARPNESS to the highest setting. How do I make the pictures sharper
>especially the closeups?

I just looked up the V3935 on Walmart's web site. At US $268 it is
rather expensive to be taking blurry photos. If you rule out camera
shake, getting too close, and other sources of blurring, maybe the
autofocus is not working right on your camera.

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Irulan - 10 May 2005 03:02 GMT

Actually, the pictures as viewed on the LCD monitor is quite good. It's when
I transfer them to the computer that they look blurry, even when I re-size
them to 640x400.

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>>The camera is a Vivitar Vivicam 3935, one of their top of the line. I
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> shake, getting too close, and other sources of blurring, maybe the
> autofocus is not working right on your camera.

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Yowie - 10 May 2005 04:07 GMT

I have a Vivitar 3550. It didn't have any sort of focussing, it was similar
to the "point and shoot" variety of el cheapo cameras. The first one I had
broke, so I got another under replacement. The photos were never as sharp or
clear on the second version.

Assuming you've checked everying else, including that the lense is clean,
take it back and get another. My el cheapo Kodak digital camera takes *much*
better pictures than my Vivitar ever did (even when the Kodak is on the
economy setting, and Vivitar was on its best setting), although I am kicking
myelf that I have lost the photo editing disk that came with the Vivitar -
it was the best photo editing program I had so far used (especially for
making panoramas).

I wouldn't have reccomended a Vivitar, sorry.

Yowie

> Well, my digital camera arrived today and I've been taking pictures of my
> handsome boy all day. I do have a question, though, maybe those who have
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> his pictures uploaded to the web.
> Jazz & his mama

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