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Hi all,

I just purchased a Toshiba PDR-3300 and am wondering whether it's
working properly.

I ran the dead pixel test (without a lens cap, I had to use a book to
block the lens), it showed 0 hot pixel at default (60) setting, but 1 at
50 and 9 at 30. Is that normal?

One of the picture
(http://greatwall.dyndns.org/pdr3300/PDR_0027-lg.jpg) I shot seems very
strange. The traffic sign on the left tilts towards right whereas the
one on the right tilts towards left. So the whole picture has a triangle
feeling. I might have been shooting a bit upward (have to say I know
nothing about photography), but I am not sure whether the effect should
be so severe. Is that normal for a 35mm camera?

I would like to return it within 30 days if the camera is defective.
Thanks for any comments.

In article <Yh32b.62$>, W Gemini wrote:

> One of the picture
> (http://greatwall.dyndns.org/pdr3300/PDR_0027-lg.jpg) I shot seems very
> strange.

When you're posting a link for people to check out a photo to help you
out, then it might be worth your while to make it a scaled down image, as
long as doing so still allows the problem to be seen. Those of us who live
out in the sticks and can't get high-speed internet access tend to just
cancel downloads when they're that big.

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>"W Gemini" <> wrote in message
>news:Yh32b.62$.. .
>> One of the picture
>> (http://greatwall.dyndns.org/pdr3300/PDR_0027-lg.jpg) I shot seems very
>> strange. The traffic sign on the left tilts towards right whereas the
>> one on the right tilts towards left. So the whole picture has a triangle
>> feeling. I might have been shooting a bit upward (have to say I know
>> nothing about photography), but I am not sure whether the effect should
>> be so severe. Is that normal for a 35mm camera?
>
Looks to me perfectly normal for a lens zoomed back to its wide angle
extreme and tilted upwards to get all of the tower in the frame. At
wide angle the tilting will cause otherwise vertical lines near the
edges of the shot to appear to tilt inward. The cure would be to get
further back so you can keep the camera level (possibly not doable
because of surrounding buildings, etc.) and compensate by using the
zoom to close back in on the subject, or to use a "perespective
control" lens -- which may not be available for your camera.

Another option is that several of the photo editing software packages
available include the capability to make perspective corrections that
could straighten out the tilt.

W Gemini wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just purchased a Toshiba PDR-3300 and am wondering whether it's
> working properly.
>
> I ran the dead pixel test (without a lens cap, I had to use a book to
> block the lens), it showed 0 hot pixel at default (60) setting, but 1 at
> 50 and 9 at 30. Is that normal?
>
> One of the picture
> (http://greatwall.dyndns.org/pdr3300/PDR_0027-lg.jpg) I shot seems very
> strange. The traffic sign on the left tilts towards right whereas the
> one on the right tilts towards left. So the whole picture has a triangle
> feeling. I might have been shooting a bit upward (have to say I know
> nothing about photography), but I am not sure whether the effect should
> be so severe. Is that normal for a 35mm camera?
>
> I would like to return it within 30 days if the camera is defective.
> Thanks for any comments.
>

Many thanks to everybody. Sorry about the big picture. I actually see
similar distortion on A70's sample shot, so I guess it must be common
for all small digital cameras. Leveling the camera and zooming in seem
to ease the problem somewhat, albeit I got some barrel distortion. I
will for sure borrow a friends' film camera to do some comparation.

In article <Yh32b.62$>,
W Gemini <> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just purchased a Toshiba PDR-3300 and am wondering whether it's
> working properly.
>
> I ran the dead pixel test (without a lens cap, I had to use a book to
> block the lens), it showed 0 hot pixel at default (60) setting, but 1 at
> 50 and 9 at 30. Is that normal?
>
> One of the picture
> (http://greatwall.dyndns.org/pdr3300/PDR_0027-lg.jpg) I shot seems very
> strange. The traffic sign on the left tilts towards right whereas the
> one on the right tilts towards left. So the whole picture has a triangle
> feeling. I might have been shooting a bit upward (have to say I know
> nothing about photography), but I am not sure whether the effect should
> be so severe. Is that normal for a 35mm camera?
>
> I would like to return it within 30 days if the camera is defective.
> Thanks for any comments.
>

That's perspective. You tilted the camera up.


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