Bruce
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I have a CP-800, purchased in March this year.
I'm generally not very pleased with this camera. It's OK, but having stepped up from a Fuji MX-500, it lacks the ability to capture some of the Fuji's image quality, particularly in areas of extreme pixelation of solid areas of an image - a clear blue sky, for a prime example. (My old Fuji provided far better available light imaging, too, with sharp, clean images taken in very low light conditions. The Nikon needs a tripod to do as well under similar lighting conditions. The Fuji did its job very well, hand held!)
The MX-500 was rated at 1.5 megapixels, and (of course) the Nikon is rated at 2.1 megapixels. Why should the lesser-rated Fuji provide much better (nearly un-pixelated) images?
My Nikon, even at 1600x1200 pixels (in 'fine' mode) is very prone to this problem.
Any suggestions as to how to avoid the problem, or am I simply out of luck?
A friend just got a Fuji FinePix 4700, and it is so far superior to my Nikon as to be almost laughable. We both took a series of the same pics, scenics of my home here in Maui, and when we plugged both cameras into a video monitor, I thought my camera was broken, the difference was so vast!
TIA for any help here...
In the meantime, here's the URL to my Photopoint album with images from both cameras, mostly the 800.
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=41388&a=7589697
Aloha!
I'm generally not very pleased with this camera. It's OK, but having stepped up from a Fuji MX-500, it lacks the ability to capture some of the Fuji's image quality, particularly in areas of extreme pixelation of solid areas of an image - a clear blue sky, for a prime example. (My old Fuji provided far better available light imaging, too, with sharp, clean images taken in very low light conditions. The Nikon needs a tripod to do as well under similar lighting conditions. The Fuji did its job very well, hand held!)
The MX-500 was rated at 1.5 megapixels, and (of course) the Nikon is rated at 2.1 megapixels. Why should the lesser-rated Fuji provide much better (nearly un-pixelated) images?
My Nikon, even at 1600x1200 pixels (in 'fine' mode) is very prone to this problem.
Any suggestions as to how to avoid the problem, or am I simply out of luck?
A friend just got a Fuji FinePix 4700, and it is so far superior to my Nikon as to be almost laughable. We both took a series of the same pics, scenics of my home here in Maui, and when we plugged both cameras into a video monitor, I thought my camera was broken, the difference was so vast!
TIA for any help here...
In the meantime, here's the URL to my Photopoint album with images from both cameras, mostly the 800.
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=41388&a=7589697
Aloha!
