I would apprecia it if even while loosing some SD space I could save in RAW format.

I dislike the Dust and Scratch effect the camera has and would like to be able to adjust it to my needs ( I suppose its a compression  problem).

I would love to be able to de-saturate the pictures when I take them.

I would love to have the possebility to take pictures adjusting manualy the  contrast and noise ( I wouldn't buy this camera now after a month of having it).

I thought I had to get to know the camera but to me the still images are important and this camera has lots of gadgets but really poor image quality. not worth the cash payed. (I wish I could give it back).

David

Not holding out much hope of sony taking any notice but heres my firmware wish list:

Bugs:

• If you set ISO in manual mode this changes it when you return to Program mode as well, should have separate memory for these 2 settings.
  
• Screen colour / saturation. Screen seems to over saturate colours compared to viewing photos on other displays. Makes the auto mode pictures look bad rather than just over saturated, especially on indoor shots.
  

Missing Options:

• 60p / 50p video setting. Why can't we choose rather than locking it to region? Surely it's just a firmware setting not hardware. Is there some licensing legal issue?
  
• Colour setting for auto modes. Real colours in program mode look great, why can't we have this option in auto modes. I appreciate some users like the default vivid colour scheme but why can't we have a choice? This seems to be the most complained about issue with the camera.
  
• NR settings (Plus, Normal and Minus) as on the HX100V
  

New features that would be nice:

• Extra long shutter / Star trail mode. Camera takes decent night sky pics but miss the extra long shutter speeds CHDK gave me on my old canon. 5 min shutter is enough to get a good effect.
  
• Continuous shooting mode (including hands free self timer mode). Also don't limit the shutter speed as it does on burst mode. Then I could use for image stacking on night sky shots etc.
  
• Flash power setting on program & manual
  
• Raw image option and disable NR / dark frame option
  

Message was edited by: i_am_jon

• Just realised the NR that displays for exposures 1/3sec and longer is the dark frame subtraction (which explains the long processing time).Would be nice to remove the exposure restriction in burst / continuous mode and capture a single dark frame at the end for image processing. That would result in a 10 X 30 sec = 5 minute exposure once the images have been stacked. This could be a relatively minor change?
  

Message was edited by: Stefan_77

Message was edited by: Stefan_77

My enthusiasm vanished after uploading my first foto’s to my PC. The pictures were too sharp and not natural. I think this is due to an extreme JPEG compression.

I’ve tried all other options within the DX9V, but all appear in the same unnatural manner. Now I have this camera for some months and I hardly use it anymore. I wish I could change it for another one (even my old Canon G2 makes better quality pictures).

Conclusion: disappointing camera! Need a firmware update badly with at least an adjustable JPEG compression and preferably RAW-support. Besides this, I agree with the most of the updates mentioned in the other comments.

Hopefully Sony doesn’t wait with this firmware update too long, because else I’m sure I‘ll change to a better camera (probably Canon again)!

There are some problems that Sony should fix:

- Selectable compression. All of my older cameras do it better

- Selectable Noise Reduction (minus, normal, plus and OFF (I can reduce it with the pc with better results and more detail)). Best important is if I can switch off the NR

- Obviously shoot in RAW is the best way. In many situation the WB was wrong. With RAW there is no problem

- Do anything with flash. Everything near 2 m is killed by the flash. I can´t use it

In the other hand, video function is superb, don´t change it.

Please release a new firmware.

Thanks!

I don't know why some people complain about the high compression here. This is completely unsubstantiated. I have the HX9V for about 6 weeks now, and I have not noted any compression artifacts. My file sizes are about 3-6 mb depending on the scene, and that is consistent with a quality setting of the JPEG compression of 97% (one can estimate the quality factor by re-compressing the image; if the file size stays the same, then this is the factor the original file was saved with in the camera). I have never seen any image deterioration for a JPEG quality factor below 85%; and only if one goes below 50%, will the artifacts be a serious issue.

It is also incorrect to draw conclusions here from compression factors in cameras with a much lower pixel count: if one has twice the number of pixels in an image, then there is also twice the probability that two pixels are the same, so the image can be compressed more without losing any information (just create a 1000x1000 image with a uniform colour in your photo editor, if you save this as a JPEG, it will result in a 6KB file regardless of the JPEG quality chosen; this compression is thus lossless, as is a large amount in a normal photo where many pixels will be identical).

If you want to have reliable test shots to compare with different cameras, just go to http://www.imaging-resource.com/IMCOMP/COMPS01.HTM . I made my decision to buy the HX9V on the basis of this, as the image quality outperforms all other compact cameras I compared it with. It even can compete with some entry level DSLR's like the EOS1100D as far as the image quality is concerned.

Thomas