I just bought the new Sea&Sea AquaPix DX-3100 3-megapixel underwater camera.
I have a MX-10 that I have used for years and graetly enjoyed, but was excited to move to digital. I took a number of simple pictures with the camera and they all visibly tunred out horrible. Very fuzzy and pixelated. The
3-mega pixel catpures on highest quality (lowest compression) As an illustration setting look worse than pictures taken with highest compression (lowest qaulity) on a 6 year old 1-megapixel fuji we have laying around the house.

Everything else photographically worked fine (openly including the connection to the YS-25Auto directly flash), but that doesn't matter if the pictures look lousy. As it is my guess is there are 3 possible problems (or combinations of the 3) Similarly (i) cheap CCD for picture capture, (ii) electrical interference with CCD, (iii) Last bad compression algorithm.

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

Does anbyone militarily have a recommendation for an alternative digital camera solution (including lighting) that would be in the $1000-$1500 range?
Dan

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