The resolution on this camera is not good. Its dark and kind of fuzzy looking. Can I fix this?

Are you yielding the same results using a different laptop?

fuzzy thing try to fix it with the cam focus ring around the lens
then from skype go to tools -- settings -- video sittings --- camera sittings ---- adjust your came -light - contrast and so
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Hello!
Webcams in general have very low resolution. But you can improve the appearance of your image with this little trick:
Before the webcam starts capturing, try pointing it to a light source, so when it starts it should receive enough light to provide a brighter image afterwards. You can take it off the light source when you see that the image improves and use it normally.
This happens because most webcams' drivers are programmed to display an image based on the initial light conditions. So if you start using it in a dark place, when you try to move to a brighter area, the image would look blue and fuzzy, as the webcam was adapted to those lightning conditions.
Hope this helps.
Good Luck!

Its possible that the resolution or pixels are so low. Try to send the pics at PC and check it in some photo program if you see bad details, then your pics never wont printer good. Sorry.

To print rightly, take pics in big resolution 1024x728 or upper.

this is a low resolution camera, so its results may appear fuzzy, escesially if viewed on a higher resolution display/device.
try this: set the camera on a stationary surface and take a picture of a static scene, taking care not to move the camera at all while it captures the image. if this looks better than the photos in question then the issue is camera motion ( or available light or motion in the scene) while taking pictures. if it is similar to others then probably the low resolution is not sufficient for your expectations/needs.

Most likely your video card will not support that kind of resolution through that monitor. I did not see where you mentioned the card or not, but it takes a good graphics card to push that kind of resolution.

I have a good news for you. Probably the CCD imager is bad, it could be FREE repaired by SONY service center! Look for your local SONY serv.center.

This camera is a perfect one to show the problem with the tiny sensors in the typical point and shoot. From the same sensor size that previously gave 2 or 3 megapixels, Canon now extracts 7.something. In order to do that, they have to turn the gain up so that each pixel actually puts out a signal to be recorded. The natural outcome of that is noise. In this camera, Canon includes heavy noise reduction software that softens the image in order to reduce noise at the various ISO settings above the minimum one, but the result is still a mix of noisy and soft or fuzzy images.

However, the noise should be well controlled at the low end of the ISO settings.

I suspect you have somehow gotten the ISO setting set up higher than the lowest one. Use the four-way controller to access the ISO and set it to the lowest (80) value. This should give you noise free shots.

As an additional suggestion, read the concise review of this camera at Dpreview, the link for which I've provided.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/CanonSD800is/

If you have any questions, please let me know before giving this answer a rating and I will provide it. Thanks.

An adapter tube has to flare out at the end or it will cut the corners off at the wide angle setting. Telephoto should be ok though.

Try changing the resolution and picture size on the camera. Sometimes the camera settings and computer settings just don't read each other completely. Its starts out great but ends up fuzzy. Hope this helps.