I have a Canon Power Shot A720. Outdoor photos are beautiful. Indoor photos are always grainy/blurry...a lot of noise. I have tried the ISP feature but there are only two choices... 1. Auto or 2. High ISO Auto Either setting, the indoor photos are grainy. Further, there are times when my flash will not work. It won't work on Auto setting or when I try and "force flash" it. No flash and the photo will not allow a picture to even be taken. Any suggestions? Thanks

1st
Is there any dirt on the lens? make sure it is clean. if this is not the issue you will need to open the camera and make sure it is clean on the inside as well (I DO NOT reccomend to do this alone)

2nd
make sure to use rechargeable batteries ONLY
I reccomend using ENELOOP (by sanyo) or FUJITSU
make sure the batteries are made in Japan!!

You have two options: Download the manual from here and have it printed and bound. Most office-supply stores will be able to do this. The alternative is to contact Canon and see whether they can sell you a manual.

You could have a smudged lens, take a soft cloth and run it over the lens this might help

The graininess of the photos would be due to an ISO sensitivity that is set too high. A good idea is to set it to "Auto". You can look through the menu and see if your ISO is set to 1600 or 800, that is too high for general use. An improperly adjusted white balance can make the colors look funny. You can set this to Auto as well, which will appear as AWB in the menu.
Try shooting in regular Auto mode.

The Canon A95 has been known for taking noisy and grainy photos. Try using a low ISO setting of 50 or 100 to see if that helps. Using auto ISO or ISO above 100 will put more noise/grain in your photos. Also, always shoot in the best lighting situation possible. The more light the better. You can always improve your photos with good editing software too.
I hope this helps and good luck!

take batteries out for an hour, this will reset to factory.  Give it a shot after that.

Dear Kim

 

Sony Cybershot works on technology of where is checks the srround light, if light is fine (like in Sun or outside) phots are fine. solution to this either replace flash or put some big light on  while taking photos

 

thanks

Apparently this is not the camera for marching band stuff at night because I had this problem over the weekend!  I tried everything...

I'm assuming you purchased a Sony as replacement. If that's the case, take it back and ask for a new one or have it checked out. Something sounds horribly wrong to me. If by chance you got one of those Chinese/Taiwanese cameras. Give it away and go back to the P72. Of course, a few hours reading the manual and playing with the camera may solve your problems. Don't try to get fancy first off. Stick with Auto modes until you get a feel for what you're doing. If you are using Auto the go back to the first sentence :-) BMW