Opnions on Lumix Panasonic?

WaterMoonBlue

Hello,
I am newbie on this board.

I would like some opinions about my camera,which is Lumix Panasonic and it is Digital DMC-LS75.I've had this camera for over a year now. I am wondering how do I fix my camera because it is making my pictures fuzzy?
Is this Camera is good for taking excellent pictures? Is it recommended? what is good or bad about the camera?

Thanks much appreciated!

WaterMoonBlue

ziggy53

WaterMoonBlue wrote:

Hello,
I am newbie on this board.

I would like some opinions about my camera,which is Lumix Panasonic and it is Digital DMC-LS75.I've had this camera for over a year now. I am wondering how do I fix my camera because it is making my pictures fuzzy?
Is this Camera is good for taking excellent pictures? Is it recommended? what is good or bad about the camera?

Thanks much appreciated!

WaterMoonBlue

WaterMoonBlue, welcome to the Digital Grin.

Could you post some images or links to images that show the problems you are having?

WaterMoonBlue

Here is some of the photos..I noticed some of the pictures are grainy, too.

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/3331/importedphotos00016.jpg

http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/662/2009032625.jpg



http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/8664/2009032623.jpg



http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/5456/200903264.jpg



Thank you

WaterMoonBlue

ziggy53 wrote:

WaterMoonBlue, welcome to the Digital Grin.

Could you post some images or links to images that show the problems you are having?

kdog

Thanks for posting those. Fortunately, the EXIF information is preserved in these images, so we know what the shooting parameters were. Based on those, these exposures are all over the map. It looks like there are several problems. Some of your images have shutterspeeds at 1/4 to 1/6th of a second, which is very slow, and can cause motion blur. At the same time, they're ISO1250 which is what's causing the grain. Evidently, you had very little light, and yet no flash fired! Why not? It did fire in some shots, so we know it's working. Is there a way to turn it off? Did you take two pictures in a row very quickly so that the flash didn't have time to recycle? Another interesting tidbit is that most images are shot on auto-exposure, yet some are "normal" shooting mode. So something was changing in your shooting habits, indicating that maybe you bumped a setting here or there inadvertantly.

I also noticed that all of these shots are taken at close range. I found one review on the internet that says this camera will not focus at distances from your subject less than a foot. I'll bet it has a macro mode, but I also bet you don't use it. So some of those shots might be misfocusing because they were shot too close.

Here's a big question for you. Do ANY of the pictures come out ok? Or all they all bad? In particular, I'm wondering what happens if you take a picture of a more distant object, like a landscape in good light. Or a picture of your car in your driveway while standing 10' away or more. Make sure it's on auto-mode when you do it. What happens?

Couple of other questions. Was the camera bought new? Has it always misbehaved like this, or has it gotten worse over time, or even suddenly?

Let us know, and we'll figure out where to go next.

Cheers,
-joel