Right off the bat, I am going to say, "I'm not sure what's going on."

Hey, lots of help, huh?

Why you have the clarity and crispness might be chalked up to one was taken from video (a moving Image) whereas the other was taken from the perspective of a still camera,

The still camera, working from shutter speed, aperture, etc... will give a sharp, clear picture. The vidoe portion just takes a frame and gives you what you got.

Like I said, I DON'T KNOW! Just guessing.

Is the video like that all through the whole thing? It does look like the video (picture) was taken on an overcast day and the still picture end of the camera compemsated for it, hence the clearer of the two.

My greatest concern is that the video end of the video camera is out of whack.

I see where you said you "recently" purchased this camera. Has it been within the last thirty days? (most places offer a refund within the thirty days of buying. Places like Best Buy, Circuit City, even Walmart.)

My suggestion is to, right now, go outside and grab some still images with lots of detail and get a couple feet of video of the same thing. Or when you can come up with a full, sunshiny day that is still within the thirty day thing.

Get your pictures that you took the still images in your computer and get the video in your computer. I'd say don't do anything with these pictures except for resizing on the net. Some are still on dial-up.

Grab some stills from the video that are close to where the still shots were. Post them and lets see what we can see.

Yeah, technology is great, but aggravating when they don't work like you seem to think they should work.

Show us what you got and then we'll discuss and hopefully we can come up with some answers.

Like I siad, I have no idea, but we can have a look and see what we can see!

Dale I never said I was smart, just pretty to look at...

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