Images in dark

I was at a work party last night and was TRYING to take pics with my n73, which were coming out rather **bleep** and with a lot of haze, my friend who has a sony ericsson K810i quality was excellent.. no haze no nothing...
now why cant nokia do that to their camera's
before you ask i had changed the setting and the light sensitivity but still nothing.
Blackberry Bold

Hi! i wonder if we are dealing with the same problem. i noticed in my N82 black that when i am trying to capture images, i notice a red haze at one side of the screen, then it worsens when the area you are capturing gets dark. but when they are shot, the pics produced seemed to be okay. it's just when you are about to take a new image and viewing your target on the screen. i dunno if it's because of the lighting adjustment when you move the camera around, but the red haze seemed to appear in the same side of the screen.

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