My digital camera... WTF?

[Tenbatsuzen]

<p>I had a Canon Powershot S40 for a long time, and I was really happy with the picture quality.&nbsp; In fact, many a picture of RnF parties were taken with that camera.&nbsp; The settings on it were for M2, Fine quality</p><p>Sadly, the slide cover for the camera began to break down, and although the camera still worked, I decided it was time to retire it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I got a Canon Powershot A610 for Christmas. It was a five megapixel, well-reviewed camera.</p><p>I like the feel of the camera, and it's a very easy camera to use.&nbsp; I even set the defaults to M2, fine quality.&nbsp;However, I feel very unsatisfied with the camera.</p><p>The problems are the following:</p><p>1) The picture quality, even though this is a five megapixel and the old one was a four megapixel, is horrific in comparison.</p><p>2) When I'm using autofocus for snapshots, About 1 in 10 pictures will come out blurry, as opposed to never having a blurry snapshot with the old camera.</p><p>When I get home, I post some picture comparisons to show was I mean.</p><p>JerseyRich... ball's in your court.</p>

[furie]

i was issued a fuji S3000 at work and it's a steaming pile of dog shit.

avoid it.

[badorties]

<p>&nbsp;</p><p>are all the settings set to auto ...? blurry pix can come from a bad combo of shutter speed and light (flash) ... try using the formatted settings for low-light, 'action,' portrait and such</p><p>i've been using the Fuji FinePix S3100 for the last year and have taken hundreds of amazing (albeit digital)&nbsp;pix ... great camera at a great price</p><p><img height="232" src="http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/S3100/ZS31A.JPG" width="250" border="0" /></p>

[EliSnow]

<p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">I'm having similar problems with my Sony Cybershot 7.2 which takes more blurry pictures than the previous Sony camera I had which was 5.1 megapixels.&nbsp; </font></p>

[Mike Teacher]

<p>Canon usually rocks, I mean theyve been around forever, weird. I use the Rebel, the digital SLR, but for that quality you pay the price and the thing is huge; not for throwing in a pocket.</p><p>The sheer number of MPs isn't as important as good optics, a crappy lens, or a lens system that is stretched to all the distortions, chromatic aberrations, and edge-faults; these will give crappy pics no matter how big the CCD is.</p><p>OK, looking back, all of that is utterly useless. My guess, the learning curve for the camera may take a while, meaning I took shit shots for a long time, and am still learning stuff all the time.</p><p>Blurry pics usually = low light forcing the shutter to stay open too long, flash photos I think default to 1/60 of a second, good enough to stop most non-action subjects, but without flash these cameras can be frustrating as hell, the shutter stays open god knows how long, so you get the light, but a uselessly blurred pic; you either have to find in the menu where to:</p><p>- Increase the 'film' speed to a high ASA, like 800 or 1600; you trade graininess for light gathering, but it helps for...</p><p>-Manually decreasing the shutter speed in non-flash photos. I have no idea if the camera you have does this; again, you trade off the amount of light pouring in for sharpness.</p><p>It's all a balancing act. Consumer reports is always reviewing digi-cams; if you find this isnt the one for you, take it back; I bought a couple of pocket sized 'Elph' cams that were very compact and high megapixel, and took atrocius unusuable pics. </p><p><a href="http://www.upstagemagazine.com/asburymusic/backinblack/" target="_blank">Some shots Ive taken</a></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Mike Teacher on 3-3-06 @ 6:30 PM</span>

[Tenbatsuzen]

<p>Imageshack blows.&nbsp; Yoinked and BRB</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p> </p>









<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Tenbatsuzen on 3-3-06 @ 7:22 PM</span>

[ChrisTheCop]

<p>After a few years with a cheap ass digital camera, I finally just spent some bucks on a medium priced digital camera. Sorry Matty I cant help u, but was hoping others could help me: </p><p>good buy or bad buy?</p><p><img height="190" src="http://www.kodak.com/eknec/documents/cc/0900688a802cc5cc/Z740_FL_270x190.jpg" width="270" border="0" />Kodak easyshare Z740.</p><p>full specs here: <a href="http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=6549&pq-locale=en_US">http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=6549&amp;pq-locale=en_US</a></p>

[Recyclerz]

<p>I'm not sure if this is your problem or not but there has been a hush-hush recall going on due to faulty chips for a lot of models.</p><p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113036700399480540-a19XaVrSzPcGNlv5Gmp_TgcLE_E_20061027.html">http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113036700399480540-a19XaVrSzPcGNlv5Gmp_TgcLE_E_20061027.html</a></p>