all digital pics crappy

[YOHAN]

yeah.. i mean heres pics of my computer look how icky and bad it is https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=...=post&id=102146

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Hold on a sec here... are you really complaining about your picture quality or are you just showing off your LCD and your iPod and your 5.1 setup??? :laugh:

[Brandon]

Hold on a sec here... are you really complaining about your picture quality or are you just showing off your LCD and your iPod and your 5.1 setup???  :laugh:

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HAHA no

[couture]

You have to play around with your camra. Don't leave it on the default settings...you use different settings for different situations (including, the amount of light you are given, the distance from you and the picture, among many other elements) so it's common for pictures to come out less than what is advertise, and if all else fails use photoshop to manipulate the colors/hues/brightness contrast, or you can use photoshop filters..

[stereopixels]

The EXIF data on the image doesn't say that you used a flash or not - all the SONY cameras i've owned or seen have added this data in, so i'm not sure why your photo does not say whether flash was used or not, also the ISO is at 250, and SONY's do suffer quite badly at ISO's over 200 (100 to 150 is preferable - 250 on a P72 suggests that the camera was in auto ISO mode).

Other settings surprise me; the photo is dark and the reason for this is the F-stop, which here we find is 4.5. Aperture (which is rated in F-stops) should be mimimal (i.e F-stop 2) in dark conditions. Additionally, your shutter speed is quite fast, and this will also lead to darker photos - longer exposure time means more light lands on the CCD sensor and is captured.

So basically...

-lower your aperture (to F2)

-Make sure you use flash, and don't get too far away from your subject

-Make the shutter speed slower

This is nothing to do with being digital, if you were using a film camera with these settings you would turn out the same results. I know that the P72 may not have all the manual controls possible, but you could try night mode (set the camera mode to SCN mode and open the menu - choose the moon icon)

[altezza Veteran]

Looks fine but it's a bit like pictures that were taken by conventional camera.

[Alpha2004]

stick with kodak or canon next time ;)

but yeah, maybe the camera is defected or something. This is unacceptable for a 3mp camera, and I dont know what could be causing it...unless its a defect/its just the way it is.

edit:i touched up your photo, and it looks fine now, more or less.

heres a comparison between a 1.2 mp (built-in) pda camera and your pic

your is still noticeably better, which is good :)

if you have ms office 2003, open up ms picture manager and play around with auto-correct and auto brightness, for pics you want to fix up. Some cameras make really bad pics in places with low light and flash enabled..meh

Edited December 29, 2004 by Alpha2004