StarAlliance38 From United States of America, joined Jan 2008, 1445 posts, RR: 4 Posted (5 years 2 months 3 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 3624 times:
The photos I've submitted took up too much memory or/and were "too grainy". How do I make it less grainy?
I have an Olympus FE-210. I set the camera to web/email quality. Do you think this will lessen the size of my pic and make it less grainy?
Firstly, I would set the camera to the highest quality setting it has to capture as much detail as possible with minimal jpeg compression. As for grain / noise, you are at the mercy of the sensor. I doubt you'll be able to choose the ISO of the camera so try and take photo's in bright conditions which should set a low ISO, eg 100 or 200 and keep grain / noise to a minimum. After that, Neat Image used appropriately (minimally!) as OPSO1 suggests can be helpful.
Darren
Equipment: 2x Canon EOS 50D; Sigma 10-20 EX DC HSM, 50-500 EX APO DG, Canon 24-105 f/4 L, Speedlite 430EX
Quoting Dazbo5 (Reply 2): Firstly, I would set the camera to the highest quality setting it has to capture as much detail as possible with minimal jpeg compression.
Cpd From Australia, joined Jun 2008, 4879 posts, RR: 44 Reply 6, posted (5 years 2 months 3 weeks 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 3529 times:
As they have said, use Neat Image sparingly. If you aren't careful with it - you'll wipe out any detail on the fuselage as well. It mistakes those for noise.
Another thing is to only sharpen what needs to be sharpened. Avoid sharpening blank areas of the fuselage and giving them a noisy/grainy look.
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