My FinePix S602 camera exhibits the same problem with the "dirt
spot" positioned almost exactly at the same place on my pictures as
it is on your picture. "Dirt spot" becomes visible on pictures
taken at apertures smaller than, say, F/4 and shrinks becoming
darker as the aperture shrinks.
My camera had this problem since the very beginning. I think of it
as a camera signature of its kind haha and it really doesn't bother
me that much. By the bye, have you bought yours at "Info Gama"?
Pozdrav.
Damn right I did !! Those f*cks .... What do they told you ...did
you tryed to make a service and did they took any money for it ?
I haven't tried any of that and I'm not going to
. I'll live with
it unless there is a relatively easy way to open the sucker up and
clean whatever needs cleaning.
Davy Wrote:
I had a thesame problem as well but mine was in the CCD pixels,,, it was a bad pixels..
I returned my s602 4 times before I had decided to make a refund!!!!
I found the problem by doing the following:
1. put the lens cover to make a total blank screen in the LCD and EVF..
move the zoom (+ and -) slowly and look at your screen to check if a bright tiny spot will come up...sometime it disappears as you move on the zoom.. also it moves on at thesame time when you move the zoom... you can see this both on the LCD and EVF.
took some shot when I saw this tiny spot and this was remained on my picture even after transffering the photos into my PC. This was in my fist s602.
2. my second s602 passed the first test... (ive learned from my experience on how to test it)...\ But think about the dead pixel again ... I used my paint brush in the PC to take a shot of different dark and light colors (RED, BLUE, BROWN,,etc)..
Replayed this colored photos on my s602 and used the zoom to magnify it and the up,down, left and right arrows to move around the colored pictures... You know what I got a thesame problem as what igot on my frist s602... So when you make the dead pixel present on your LCD or EVF and save it into VGAfile (or trimmed it).. the tiny pixel wil different color will stay on your photos..
3. The 3rd s602 had a thesame problem as well..
4. The 4th had passed all of my testing above.. but this time the dead pixel was on the LCD... no problem found on the EVF..
Definitely it was in the LCD because the bad pixel did not show up on my PC... after I transferred the photos. I've always noticed this when I deleted all of my photos and got this color blue screen... the bright tiny pixel stay on the same place.. since I could not live with it I just decided to return my s602 and make a refund.
To be honest I like the camera... I like its SLR looks and the features.. specially the 6x zoom. although yes there is aproblem during low light environment but I think I can resolve it by learning how to use the manual settings... also this low light problem is expected because I heard about it already in this forum and in the DCRP review of the s602.
I was trying to attach some of my photos to show you the effect of the dead pixels but I can not do it..
Now I am still thinking of trying another s602 on a different store...this maybe the last time.. I will let you know the result..
Just sharing my bad experience with s602..
