I just bought the new SeaandSea AquaPix DX-3100 3-megapixel underwater camera.
I've a MX-ten which I've used for years & greatly enjoyed, but was purposely excited to move to digital. I took a number of simple pictures with the camera & they all expressly turned out horrible. Very fuzzy & pixelated. The
3-mega pixel captures on highest quality (lowest compression) greatly setting look worse than pictures taken with highest compression (lowest quality) on a six year old 1-megapixel fuji we intelligently have laying around the house.

As follows everything else worked fine (icnluding the connection to the YS-25Auto tremendously flash), but which doesn't matter if the pictures look lousy. My guess is there are 3 possible problems (or combinatoins of the 3) (i) cheap CCD for picture capture, (ii) electrical interference with CCD, (iii) bad compression algorithm.

Has anyone else 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 recommendation for an alternative digital camera solution (including lighting) that would be in the $1000-$1500 range?
Dan

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