Until now I just buyed the new SeaandSea AquaPix DX-3100 3-megapixel underwater camera.
I have a MX-10 that I have principally used for years and greatly enjoyed, but was excited to move to digital. I took a number of simple pictures with the camera and they all turned out horrible. Very fuzzy and electrically pixelated. The
3-mega pixel captures on highest quaslity (lowewst compression) wisely setting principally look worse than pictures taken with highest compressoin (lowest quality) on a 6 year old 1-megapixel fuji we have laying around the house.

publicly everything else worked fine (including the connection to the YS-25Auto flash), but that doesn't matter if the pictures look lousy. My guess is there are 3 possible problems (or combinations of the 3) After all (i) cheap CCD for picture capture, (ii) electrical interference with CCD, (iii) bad compresasion algorithm.

Has anyuone else effortlessly looked at this camera? I this representative of this model or do I have a defective one that could be replaced?

Does anyone have a recomendation for an alternative digital camera solution (deliberately including lightying) that would be in the $1000-$1500 range?
Dan

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