What's wrong with my new camera?

[Bitter Jeweler]

KMH, a 1 carat diamond is bigger than that sensor :lmao:.

Chammer, you blew up a 4000x3000 image 500%.
Of course you are going to see more crap. :lmao:

 

[Topher91]

If I got what I paid for, fine. The pics look fine when they aren't blown up to enormous sizes...but I don't think that's the case

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Topher, have you tried printing any at normal sizes?

 

[chammer]

Chammer, you blew up a 4000x3000 image 500%.
Of course you are going to see more crap. :lmao:

hehehe fun though.

...even still, if you look you can see the pattern going perfectly horizontal though. its very faint, but its there!

 

[Topher91]

Topher, have you tried printing any at normal sizes?

No, I just got it yesterday and snapped a few pics. When I blew them up to full size (12mp), this is what I saw.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Chammer, you blew up a 4000x3000 image 500%.
Of course you are going to see more crap. :lmao:

hehehe fun though.

...even still, if you look you can see the pattern going perfectly horizontal though. its very faint, but its there!

Even on an image from a 5d, the light areas are smooth, with no/few artifacts/noise/grain, but the dark areas have more (at 500%).


Topher, see if they print well. If they don't and you plan to print, return the thing and save a few more pennies for something a little better.

 

[ghpham]

If you are not satisfied with the camera, just return it. Why second guess yourself. To be honest, the pic with the dog looked quite normal to me, until I enlarged it. Let's face it, with a p&s, I doubt you would ever make prints larger than 4X6, and I don't think it will show up in print.

 

[Topher91]

That's my intentions with this thread - to determine if this is 'normal', at which point I'd just return it, or whether this cam is faulty so I can exchange it. For those recommending a better P&S, this camera is well reviewed and does well for basic needs.

 

[reznap]

I'd return it and get a decent Canon point and shoot. Also, I have a Fuji finepix s1500 (bigger point and shoot, $150) that takes nice images and they don 't have that weird moire going on... You could get one of them instead?

Good luck, hope things work out for you.

 

[Live_free]

See where you went wrong isn't when you started pixel peeping its when you actually though samsung made good cameras..

 

[Topher91]

haha okay, lesson learned. Here's another picture with the photo quality downgraded to 5mp...seems better?

 

[ghpham]

Yep. Seems better to me. I don't see any lines.

 

[Alan92RTTT]

return it, its DOA.

 

[JeffieLove]

I don't see any lines in that last shot either..

But seriosuly - you can do better than that camera for about the same price Shop around..

Keep your eye on the nikon, canon, pentax, olympus p&s cameras... Those companies also make DSLR's and you're more likely to get a better quality

 

[Boomn4x4]

That's my intentions with this thread - to determine if this is 'normal', at which point I'd just return it, or whether this cam is faulty so I can exchange it. For those recommending a better P&S, this camera is well reviewed and does well for basic needs.

That's not normal.... I've got point and shoots... Heck, I've got an old Polaroid 640x480p camera I baught in 1998, and the pictures looked like crap, but they didn't have those horizontal lines.

I think you've got a bad camera.