Permalink21 December 2009 at 14:11 by QC team
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When Quality Control (QC) applies failure reasons to images we try to be as specific as possible, giving reasons as to why a particular image has failed QC. Sometimes images fail for a combination of reasons, or quite simply the image looks unacceptably soft but there are no obvious indications as to why this is. On the occasions where it isn’t possible to pinpoint a definitive reason(s) for softness we will still use the failure reason ‘soft or lacking definition’.
We understand that contributors who failed QC for this reason may require more clarification so we have updated our explanation for ‘soft or lacking definition’, which can also be read below:
Soft or lacking definition rejection explanation
The image may appear soft and/or lacking definition for one or more of the following reasons:
- The image has been interpolated beyond its limitations or an unsuitable camera has been used.
- The image is slightly out of focus/a long exposure and lens with image stabilisation has been used while the camera is mounted to a tripod.
- The image has been over-manipulated (such as overuse of noise reduction) causing degradation in image quality.
- There is slight camera shake/shake that was not evident before the image was upsized.
- A lens with poor optics has been used resulting in loss of fine detail.
- A dedicated film scanner hasn’t been used/poor quality film scanned/image scanned poorly.
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