On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 06:57:24 -0800, "Adrian" wrote:

>I just purchased a digital camcorder Sony DCR-PC110 and I noticed that in
>some cases, colors seem to be distorted. Most noticeably, at the border
>between white and black or dark colors, in full sun, depending on the
>direction of the change, the color becomes redish/purplish or greenish. I
>think that the zoom makes the problem more obvious too. Also, it seems to be
>more noticeable on still shots. Anybody else experienced the same problem?
>If this is common, I will definitely return it.
>
>I am attaching a few pictures that exhibit this color distortion. deer and
>dog1 show mostly the change in red, while dog2 shows some "greening" too
>(the left dog has the left and right edges red/purple and green, and also
>the shadow in the middle of the picture).

[NEVER attach image files to NG posts!]
(But, since I was curious, I did look...;-)
If these are full-frame captures, the camera is
defective. One image looked like fairly common
red-green lens spherical-aberration, but another
looked like a color-aliasing problem... Botrh looked
unacceptably bad.