My Digital camera produce photos with more noise than i first brought it, why?

Question

Is it because i did not put it in a drybox?

The lens are perfect. The picture product are less than the megapixel indicated... You can literally see dots on the photos...

Answer 1

The noise could be due to dust in the lens or on the sensor, or because you've got the camera set to a high ISO. You can check the ISO setting yorself. If it's dust, you'll have to have it cleaned professionally.

Answer 2

What kind of noise is it? Is it too pixelated? If so then you need to take your pictures at a larger size. In cameras you'll have the option of small, medium, or large- Don't choose small! Either go for medium or large. "Small" images, when printed or enlarged will look noise. Even though they take up less room on your image card they are not printing quality.
Also when you bring the images into a photo-editing program like Adobe you may need to change the mega pixels to a larger amount. I have to do this with my Nikon D100.
Other things to consider:

-Shutterspeed- when you hand hold your camera make sure you don't go below 1/40 of a second. But 1/60 is best.

-"ISO"- Even though you don't have film you still technically have to consider or prented like you have it. go into your camera menu and look for ISO try and use 400 or below - using more will cause the image to be grainy.

-"Mirror Lock - up" If you have this try putting it on.

-One embarrasing problem I had when I first got my camera is that I didn't know that the camera told me when it was focused. (I was moving up from a Pentx K500 to a Nikon N80) Put the camera on Autofocus, look through the viewfinder, try to focus on something and wait for a steady light to come on.

-Another test you can run is using a tripod and a cable release. This way there will be no interfernece from you moving the camera, so that can be ruled out as a possibility.

-This doesn't sound like a dirty camera issue, if it was you'd see hairs and white speks- from dust on the images.

-If none of this works visit a camera store- even if it's not where you bought it and see if they can help you- a lot of times they are very friendly and knowledgeable.

Good Luck!!!

Answer 3

1) What Make / Model is it?

2) Have you dropped it?

3) If it has options to shoot in variety of modes, such as "4MP Fine", "4MP Normal", "3:2", "2mp", "1mp", "0.3m"...... check to make sure it's set to one of the higher ones and / or not defaulting to a lower one (an olympus sp500uz I was using at work placement would do that..... set it to the highest mode, and it'd default to the 2nd best after turning it off and turning it back on again).

4) Check the condition of the battery/batteries.... my cheap TRUST Spyc@m 100 (one of the digital pencameras that's more like a portable webcam than a digicam) takes even worse pictures than usual if the batteries aren't up to scratch.

Answer 4

There could be many reasons for this.
Has the camera taken any damage?
Are you taking pictures in low light?
Is the lens dirty?

Depending on the type of camera, it may require cleaning. If you are not very familiar with cameras, you may want to take it to a dealer to get it cleaned.

Answer 5

did you drop it ???