Any digital image experts here?

[MikeKy55]

I have had this camera for 5 years? It's a FUJI MX600 Zoom. My question is, is it me? or are my images coming out slightly blurred at best? Is the camera out lived it's usefullness or have a set something unknowingly wrong?

http://www.trifive.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10004/caspers1.jpg

[fallman]

Mike? Thanks for your post to my new thread about VIN's. You say you bought your camera five years ago. How many mega pixel is it? Does Fugi MX600 mean that it is 600 mega pixel? When I bought my Toshiba the top of the line in cameras was about 600 mega pixel. The Toshiba I have is a 4.2 mega pixel. I like the clarity of my camera, so if your camera is more than my 4.2 than your either not getting the focus right or the camera is dorked. Hopefully not the latter!!! So the short to the long is the more mega pixel you have the better your clarity will be. On my camera I let the camera do everything. Set the light, speed, focus, so on and so on. I've tried doing it manually, and have had a couple pictures turn out. Most are fuzzy. Suggest getting into your owners manual if you have one. Maybe you can test it on the VIN tag? Later Fred

[MikeKy55]

It's a 1.5 mega pixel. I too let it do everything. I played with it some in manual, but it's a different world than my old Minolta 35MM SLR. This camera only offers 'Max aperture or Max exposure" I'll try to post the difference.

Aperture priority
http://pic13.picturetrail.com/VOL463/2783628/6018279/131968604.jpg
Shutter priority
http://pic13.picturetrail.com/VOL463/2783628/6018279/131968600.jpg

[fallman]

Nice car. I like the shutter better. I can only suggest a camera with a larger mega pixel. Think about the storage when you buy. What will be best for you?

[MikeKy55]

Well, I seldom shoot more than 20 to 25 pic's at a time and then download them and burn to CD. So I guess the media card won't need to be more than 32 MEGS. If thats what you meant?

[CLSSY56]

1.5 Mpix is really small to todays standards and also the reason why your pics are blurry. I believe the camera phones are 1.5 Mpix if I am not mistaken. I have a 4 Mpix and pics are nice and clear, unless the wife takes the pics, LOL ;)

[Randy 57]

One problem I had with my camera id that I messed with all the settings trying to get a great picture, they only got worse. Seems I managed to goof up the auto stuff. I tried taking the batteries, both of them, out to reset it, but found I only had to go to one of the functions to hit factory reset. Now the pictures are great again. I do have some problems with in door pictures, not enough light or something. Look for that rest function and give it a shot.

[MikeKy55]

Thanks Randy. I did that. It does seem to be working better, but the acid test will be the next indoor event. It always works fine outside. I suspect the thing was set in aperture priority and was staying open long enough for me to move my hand.

[MikeKy55]

1.5 Mpix is really small to todays standards and also the reason why your pics are blurry. I believe the camera phones are 1.5 Mpix if I am not mistaken. I have a 4 Mpix and pics are nice and clear, unless the wife takes the pics, LOL ;)


Yup, my wife cuts everyones head off when she takes pic's, LOL...

[CLSSY56]

Mine pushes the button and forgets to wait for the beep.... blurry pics

[steviej70]

I agree with what's already been said. I wouldn't go any lower than 4 megapixel. My camera is capable of taking pictures at above 10 mp, but I've never had the need. Most of the pictures I take are 3-4 mp. Keep in mind that the higher the mp, the bigger the file size is of the picture. I would also look for a camera that is capable of taking video. You never know when you might want to get a shot of a burnout!:D Also, I wouldn't get a memory card any smaller than 256MB. It's kind of like displacement...you can never have too much! (and the 256MB cards are pretty inexpensive).

Here is a great site to compare cameras...

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sidebyside.asp

[MikeKy55]

Thanks! I'll poke around in there.

[fallman]

What I meant is how the camera stores the picture. Mine is a flash card. I currently have a 8, 16, & 64 Megabite card. Then I have to connect the fire wire to the computer and download the pictures to the hard drive. At which time I can send them to CD, e-mail, what ever. Look at the different types of storage and try to pick on you think will be best for you. The Sony's used to use floppy disks, but I think they don't do that anymore. I'm not truly current on what's out there. I got my camera about four years ago. You know how electronics are, six months later that new thing is out of date. I recently had to buy a new printer. So I ended up buying a HP photosmart. It has the slots on the side of it for the top three storage media. All I have to do to print a pricture is insert the flash card into the media slot and it reads it. Kind of short sheeting the computer don't you know. Later

[MikeKy55]

Mine has a 'smart media' card. I have a couple cards, one 3.3MB and one 32MB. My PC has the slots on the front panel where I can just plug the card in and upload from there. But I also have the cable attached that plugs into the camera. The camera I use for work is a Sony and uses a 3.5 floppy disc. It can use a memory card, but it is different than what mine uses.
The wife told me to just take her camera when I wanted.

[fallman]

I might add that I get 199 exposures with my 64MB flash card if my camera is set to med. Medium meaning the picture is about 1024 x 768 pixels. That's a nice large picture. I haven't reached the end to the card yet.