I know this is more of a budget camcorder but it wasn't bought for anything other than our first child, the occassional holiday etc. The video quality is quite good in my opinion for all it cost me. The still images however for supposedly being 8.9mp are pretty poor. My cell phone a sony experia mini takes better images. The manual etc is next to useless for image settings so I'm not sure if I'm just overlooking something simple or if its just a bad camera for still images. Saying that however I have seen supposed still images from the camera and they are 10x what mine are, quality wise. Here are just 2 I had left over after trying deleting changing settings trying again. The light isn't the best (but its not dark either) and even photos taken in very bright light or even outside have the same grain / jagged edge effect to them... Any help or suggestions would be great, is the image quality just way over-rated by sony?
heres one that isn't great but isn't horrible either.. I seem to have gotten rid of the 'jagged' edge look by messing with it
http://tinypic.com/r/zslnw7/8
And here is one that is alot better,
http://tinypic.com/r/256xpc8/8
Am I possibly just overlooking something? Or does the cam really lack in the still image capabilities? The car photo is zoomed in before taking it so yes I did expect possibly some distortion, but wouldn't expect as much as that and yes they were taken later in the evening compared to the better pic taken during the day where the sun was shining into the room through a window to the right of the image.
Any help would be great
