Faces show up dark and unrecognizable

First of all, be advised that flashes are designed to light people just a few meters away, so that their faces are visible at night or when there's backlighting (very bright/sunny background and dark faces). It will not, for instance, have any effect on a landscape photo taken at night.
Please check if your camera has a manual flash mode. If so, you can set it up so that the flash will fire every time. Check the user's manual for the proper procedure.

the only thing you can do is adjust your brightness, contrast, sharpness controls. every station is different especially the sound is louder on some channels and lower on some.

Digital cameras operate on a delayed shutter. Your Camera and flash are not synchronized. Try adjusting flash to a slower speed. Or the cameras Fstop value to get them insync.

If you half push the shutter the rangefinder and focus circuits kick in and will adjust to available light and give you your best picture. Do not ever push the shutter in one step. press it slightly to get the best focus and then push the last millimeter to get the picture!

Did you change the exposure compensation setting or the ISO setting? You could go into the menu and find "reset"...follow the on-screen instructions to return to factory default settings.

You don't say what kind of pictures you're trying to take but, understand that the built-in flash is only effective for about 8 - 10 feet.

If the pictures show up normal on the computer then the back light for the LCD is going bad...
try to replace the back light..

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CCD FAILURE !

actually when it starts it starts like this pics with red or purple shades , noise ,distorted, blurred pics , discolored then it goes completely black

dont worry just call Sony for free repairs it is a manufac fault in thousands of cameras with different brands just call sony about ur problem PLS RATE ME FIXYA for help

Sony has issued service advisories for these problems

http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/news-item.pl?mdl=DSCT1&news_id=161

see this

http://www.imaging-resource.com/badccds.html

i rally dont know, i personally always keep my flash on auto and keep the brightness auto or 50%. if this is the case, then i strongly recommend contacting Sony and asking them for a solution, or taking it down to the store you purchased it from and asking them to fix it or refund it!!!

hope this helps and sorry i couldn't help in much detail!!

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u might want to try and put a coffee filter over your flash when you take pictures to make the flash less bright. it sounds really silly but it actually works.

normally that happen in the cameras when we take out one filter that is fitted between the CCD and the Lens, maybe on that camera is just don´t exist and depending on the light the image changes.