Dark picture at night when using falsh - Sony Cyber-shot DSC-N1 Digital Camera

That may be because (in case you had not noticed) it is dark at night. As you have given us no information regarding the equipment you are using, we cannot be more specific.

Did you try going into the menu and increasing the picture brightness?

Turn the dial to SCN, then use the right/left to select night scene.

Please readjust the ISO.
In order to find a pattern please experiment: For example: Try Different SCN (If you're experiencing this problem with your night pictures try and use SCN night, the logo shows a moon and a star, with or without Flash.

no there isn,t.but these cameras do not have enough flash to take great pictures at night,for one you cant be to far away,two you have to have a subject in range of the flash,other wise all you get is darkness.but at the most 10ft is the farthest you can go and still get a great shot at dark.also use auto mode when taking pictures,because it adjusts to light-dark etc.i know this because i have the same camera and its awesome,plus im a photo technician and ran a photo lab for 3years selling digital cameras. good luck,hope i helped

Did you try fresh batteries? If your batteries are old, your flash may not build up enough charge to flash. Let me know how it goes, or if I can help you further.

Rob

I had the exact same problem. You'll need to send it back to Canon. It'll cost you $87-94, but they'll clean it up, get the flash working, and make it new again. It's a good camera worth getting fixed.

You can try adjusting your exposure settings, or try and use the slow shutter speed settings like the auto night mode... Try increasing the white balance as well...

Here is a link to the manufacturers link to the manual. Click the one called Operating Instructions. http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-documents.pl?mdl=DSCP41&LOC=3 Look on page 29, this will tell you how to operate the flash. Hope this helps.

There are ways to deal with this problem. As others have said, your camera appears to be normal. Consider using "dark frame subtraction" to successfully employ long shutter speeds. The technique involves capturing two images using the same exposure time and the same camera temperature. One of the images is your picture. The other (the "dark image") is captured with the lens cap on, or other suitable way to block all light. Then using one of the more sophisticated photo editing applications, "subtract" the "dark image" from your picture. This technique will dramatically reduce the noise, because moist of the noise is deterministic, but is highly dependent on shutter speed and on CCD temperature. Of course you can use flash at night, but only for subjects that are close enough to the camera - not for a subject such as your stjernehimmel 2 photo