Photography question

[Geezerette]

Asking here rather than on the photography section so maybe more people might have ideas. I like to copy & have prints made of the family pictures, grandkids etc that my relatives put on Facebook. Sometimes I can copy directly to a disc & take to processing place. Other times, copy them to My Pictures then to disc. They aalways look fine and clear on the computer or the disc but sometimes the prints come out blurry, & sometimes clear. Can't figure out what the difference is & sometimes the computer at the film processor crops the picture without asking for it. Is it the processor? Does it depend of what device the original pic was taken with? What could I do to improve results on my end? The kids take a lot of pictures but I know they are too busy to be getting prints made for me all the time. Blur is better than none at all, but still!!!
any suggestions or explanations would be very much appreciated.

and am thinking about upgrading my own camera to a cute little Canon power shot ELPH135, 16 MP, 8x zoom.
$79.00. Any reviews?

 

[Ameriscot]

If the file is too small you won't get good quality prints. Many photos people put on Facebook were taken with phones which will usually not be of good printable quality.

 

[ClassicRockr]

We take a LOT of photos with the two digital camera's we have and our 4s iPhones, but I never keep pictures that are blurry.......even if I only have one of them. A blurry picture can be the cause of a couple of things: person taking picture moves the camera while holding it or the camera isn't set for "action/moving" type pictures and they come out blurry. For pictures of Christmas lights, I always use a tripod.

Personally, I don't know why some of our photos are coming out this way. I do ALL of my own processing on our home computer and put all photos on USB Flash Drives. But, then again, I'm sort of a "techy" when it comes to "photo processing" at home.

Look on the internet for reviews of the camera you're interested in. In the "search" area put "reviews for ............(name of camera you're interested in) and then check out those website reviews. That's what I do, b/c most of the time, people don't have what I have.