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OK upon further testing with mine...although i dont have the pictures as i formatted the memory stick on my phone the green tint after i updated the firmware changes dramatically according to the lighting.

I for one on my phones screen cannot see the green tint as vividly if at all as i could before the firmware, the problem comes when i try to upload the picture to the pc. Being of a better quality my PC screen makes finding the green tint easier.

However when i was out and about yesturday i took a few photos and with natural light the tint was not evident in most shots and the one where it was evident it was slight.

When i took the above pictures i posted, i was in my room using a lamp which has a bulb producing a yellowish glow. I feel this does affect the issue.

Additionally I would like to point out that the pictures we take to find the green tint i would say 8 out of 10 times are of a constant or single colour. If you take a variety of colours then the tint is hardly visible.

Here are some pics i took just now, all of the pictures taken in the same room with the exact same lighting from different positions all i did was resize them to upload them to esato and i'll be honest i found it hard to spot any glaring green tint.












The pictures of Homer and the Pink book i took three of them with varying EV levels of +2.0, 0 and -2.0 as you can see that also impacts the photos colours more specifically however on my older firmware it made a huge difference on the green tint. Although the thing is by increasing the EV you over expose the picture, so details are lost.

In all honest i dont think SE's treatment of the situation is very good. I've never owned an SE before the P1, well except for my brief 2 month stint with a t300 way back when. But i think taking picture after picture of white walls and light coloured woods is no good. I think if everyone made an effort to go and take real life shots then we can get a better indication of the problem which does exist.
I'm not defending the green tint, far from it i still think a recall should be in place and that SE should make an effort to fix the situation rather than relying on customers to take the initiative.

[ This Message was edited by: 5nak3 on 2008-01-12 18:23 ]
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Posted: 2008-01-12 19:14:06
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Thanks for the pics, I think the green tint is most evident in darker or underexposed pics and clearly seen when the pics includes finished wood (e.g flooring) or grass.
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Posted: 2008-01-12 19:48:36
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Yeh i'll agree with you on the wood bit, as for grass i might test out that theory tomorrow see what i make of it.

oh and yes the underexposure makes a huge difference, in fact if i get an underexposed noisy picture later the noise particles take a greenish colour causing the green tint.


[ This Message was edited by: 5nak3 on 2008-01-12 19:12 ]
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Posted: 2008-01-12 20:10:47
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Is there new firmware?
What's new in new firmware?
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Posted: 2008-01-13 09:07:03
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5nak3, on your pictures there's green tint. It's very small but it's true.
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Posted: 2008-01-13 13:59:43
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Actually i don't agree with you on your remark of the wood bit (and the one you made before on my "light coloured woods"). I walked into the park without a proper camera, so the snapshot cam in the smartphone was the only one i had on me. The idea behind a phone cam should be "good enough". I am really annoyed still that my current P1i really screwed up my photo (knowing that my former K800i, K750 and even T610 would have done a better job colour wise - as possibly any other brand comparable phone currently on the market). I agree it's a smartphone, not a cybershot phone so the camera is not a primary aspect (sacrificing quality for size makes sense). But the quality of the camera seems bad enough under some circumstances to be regarded sub standard compared to what u should be able to expect from todays technology.



In all fairness i must admit that CXC 162037 R9H004 is my current firmware, since that's the latest released here to date (they're slow ..) - i am not going to risk my warranty installing a different zone. Speaking of warranty, when i contacted SE the day i took these pics, they told me they never heard of the problem, when i informed about their policy on the issue.



[ This Message was edited by: nickolaas on 2008-01-13 17:36 ]
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Posted: 2008-01-13 17:13:43
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Hi, they say my phone is ready for collection, WTF, it is only 1 working day, since I sent in for repair. Anyway they only have automated customer hotline, I have got a feeling they just reinstall the freaking firmware. That's all.

Can you imagine they just took 2 hours to repair the phone and they reply it is ready for collection, **** I have the feeling they can't do anything and the green tint will still be there. **** I will go there in a moment and be back with some photos for you guys.
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Posted: 2008-01-14 03:57:30
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F***. As expected they just updated the firmware without changing the camera module. Bad service and lazy bunch. What's more they tamper with the screen protector and I have to use a new one.
Now my SE manager crash and need to update the firmware again.
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Posted: 2008-01-14 09:28:30
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hi all ...got this problem too ... i am really disappoited from my P1i ... first the music player is 2 steps down on my old W800i and now the camera makes green pictures ...i think they should recall all the phones and give us new ones!!! if not this will be also my last Sony Ericsson ...
made a picture of a white A4 in low light ...you can see clear the green on the right and the magenta in the middle




[ This Message was edited by: pt020 on 2008-01-14 08:56 ]
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Posted: 2008-01-14 09:54:34
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If SE recalled all P1s they would have a massive cost on their hands, and this for something very minor as the images in most cases are still ok even with the tint. For example, the first people in this thread didn't even notice until they were told about it. So SE really shouldn't bother. They could fix it up in the P1s they are manufacturing currently though.

It really is nothing to leave SE over. The problem affects just one model in the range and most other cameras are fine in terms of quality per mega pixel (for a mobile phone). Leaving SE over such a small problem would be silly. It would be like having an N95 which is apparently brilliant, but never buying a Nokia again because the N95 has bad battery life.

If camera quality is so dear to you, and you want no green tint, then I suggest you buy a dedicated digital camera

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Posted: 2008-01-14 10:05:13
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