Over exposure I bought my daughter a kodac c316 it takes great pictures during the day but as soonas we take pictures on a night with the flash the pictures are completely blue. can you offer any advice. Regards Maria

IR/ night vision, Black and white also seem to work good most of the time too. Just keep playing around until you find one that suites your needs. Happy refraction !!!!.

Go to MENU. Then TOOLS. Make sure Motion Detection is in AUTO.
If that is on AUTO then Put the camera on a hard surface (like tripod) and focus and see if image is still blurry. Lastly, it is difficult to focus in some conditions. Move the focus point, you can click on the screen to change it. Blur can be caused by: long exposures, camera motion during photograph, bad conditions unable to focus.

The focus routine in this camera gets confused often. It can be frustration. It will only be in focus when it is GREEN before you shoot and the camera is not shaking. At night it can take great night shots with a TRIPOD and Exposure set to -1 to -2.

Taking pictures at night is just like taking pictures during the day, except it's darker. In order to get enough light to the image sensor, you need to either increase the sensor sensitivity (increase the ISO), open up the aperture (smaller f/numbers), use a longer exposure (which may require putting the camera on a tripod or other stable platform), or a combination of the three. Or put more light on the subject, perhaps by using the flash.

The flash on your camera doesn't put out very much light (when compared to the sun). You can't use it for subjects far from the camera, or when you want things at different distances illuminated evenly.

You didn't state the model of your camera so I'm afraid I can't tell you how to change any of the three settings I mentioned in the first paragraph.

You cant see infrared flash, but it is not working. The only way to check this is with special equipment. If the unit is new, send it back.

Night mode is for use with a tripod, do you have a tripod? If you don't, try setting it on a flat surface when you take the picture, the camera has to be perfectly still. I hope this helps!

If it takes no pictures then you set it for day only. If it takes pictures that are black then the capacitor that controls the flash is not functional.

Check your ISO setting. Try "auto ISO".

It looks like you took pictures on Manual mode and didn’t set the Exposure Compensation and Shutter speed properly. If you can get good pictures on Auto mode, your camera is ok.

To take night photo's you need to use a tripod. this will enable you to take long exposures without the blur. If you use flash it will only illuminate objects near the camera.

Hi maria,

first how did you take a picutre during daytime ? try the auto setting on the camera , perhaps you have it now in the night mode and that may cause your problem