First disappointment with the FZ5

My wife took some indoor flash shots (I was not there) where one person had
on an ultra-white blouse. There is a bleed or a fuzz or a bloom or a flare
around the blouse. This was consistent among several shots with the same
gal's blouse. All other shots that she took look fine. My wife used flash
and the heart mode. She is very good with the camera, by the way.

I have Googled this and have learned that CCD sensors can do this (flare
around white objects).

More Googling and group searching reveals that FZ5s can and do bloom.

Not a big deal ... we still like the camera, but this is a bit
disappointing.

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 18:43:06 -0500, Charles Schuler wrote:

My wife took some indoor flash shots (I was not there) where one person had
on an ultra-white blouse. There is a bleed or a fuzz or a bloom or a flare
around the blouse. This was consistent among several shots with the same
gal's blouse. All other shots that she took look fine. My wife used flash
and the heart mode. She is very good with the camera, by the way.

I have Googled this and have learned that CCD sensors can do this (flare
around white objects).

More Googling and group searching reveals that FZ5s can and do bloom.

Sounds like it was somewhat overexposed. I don't know off-hand if the
exposure compensation settings work in heart mode, but if so, dialing in
a negative flash compensation might reduce the problem. Certainly,
running the camera in P mode would let you do that.

-dms