Unhappy with picture quality

[sergiozh]

if you see the problem again with the new camera please tell us that the problem is not solved.

[Blow-in]

Thanks for the heads up re the cd. I could never remember seeing one so all good. The shop called me yesterday and offered to give me a new camera and return the initial one to Ricoh, and I am happy to say my new camera appears to be working as expected. I still need to take more photos to confirm but looks ok. Have to say that the shop were great in the end.
Now, I can hopefully get out and take some decent images!

Justin,

This sounds like a good outcome after a bit of a struggle. Keen to see some images too - your previous street shots looked interesting despite the colour cast. I'm sure your last camera was a rogue but we will probably never know why.

Richard

[TheChefs]

To me it seems that you just got a defective copy. It can happen and if you got new one then everything is good. Enjoy the cam, I know I'm enjoying mine and it goes with me everywhere! Unlike my K-5...

[ZDP-189]

Wow, that camera is either extremely defective or there is something funky going on in settings or post. Mine is great. Take it to the dealer.

[ageha]

Hi Justin,

Thank you for the permission. Here are the crops:

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Last crop is especially good example that there is something wrong with this camera, because you should not see such bad posterization in the DNG files. Not even in Fine quality JPEG. So it's definitely weird.

BTW, in your last post, you mentioned one important point that could be the clue why I cannot reproduce your problem! You are using AdobeRGB while I'm using sRGB! I will give it a try with the Adobe RGB. Could you please try the sRGB option?

I also asked you for your camera settings. Here is how you can extract them:

Go to Menu >> Key Custom options >> Reg. My Settings >> and in the appeared "Chose a Destination" window select "Card". Then simply select one of the 6 available slots to save your actual GRDIV configuration.

Now connect the camera to computer (or SD card via the card reader) and go to Myset folder, where you should see something like myset01.ifo. Then simply upload the ifo file to your post (using Post Reply button. Quick reply does not have the ability to attach files).

I will try your configuration on my GRDIV, just to see if it has something to do with the camera settings or not. But my personal opinion is that it's something HW related.

It's a pretty old Sony 1/1.7" CCD and I don't think the banding is that bad for what it is. Blacks will be always challenging for this sensor.