I was dismayed to discover that my new Optio X makes visual defects in many photos: they look like small, white, semi-transparent orbs floating in the air. I have only noticed this problem with flash photography so far. This something I've seen in digital photos before, but out of 30 photos that I took at a party last night, at least hald of them exhibited this problem. Another very strange thing I noticed on only a few pictures: small, hard, white specks on the image that look as the way dust appears on a color print from a negative. A couple of the pictures I took last night actually look like they have dust on them! (and yes, I checked, it's not specks on my monitor) I am totally baffled. I wanted to upload an example into this post but it seems that images have to be hosted on the web somewhere and I don't have time to deal with that, so I hope my descriptions suffice for someone to tell me if this is "normal" or not.
You are seeing either the reflection of airborne dust as noted or perhaps lens flares. This is very normal and all cameras do it to one degree or other.
Posted on Sep 08, 2005
I've not seen any such defects on my Optio X, although I don't use flash much. The some-300 photos I've taken so far are completely clean. Sounds like dust on the CCD. Might warrant a return to Pentax.
Posted on Sep 08, 2005
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