N97 Camera - picture quality

Having a bit of trouble with the quality of pictures taken from the main camera on my N97. Although, I have the resolution set to max (5mp), the pictures that come out dont look anything like 5mp resolution.
I say this because I had a N82 before this which had a 5mp camera, which I guess was pretty much same as N97. I still have my old phone so I compared pictures from both (same object, same conditions) and pictures from N82 were still a lot better than N97.
I have the latest firmware on N97 and have tried all different setting and even tried a hard reset, but cant have it to take good pictures. Although the size once I copy them to my computer says 2592x1944, the details are no where there what they should be.
Has anyone had a similar problem or is this a defect in my phone?

the picture quality on my new N97 seems to be very low.
when i take daytime photos, they are okay exept that they seem to have a 'shiny paper' look about them.
last night i was taking some outside photos using the flash and they were dreadful. they had colours all over them and they seemed to have spots all over them except in the immediate centre of the picture.
very sad.
one of the main reasons i bought the N97 is to upgrade from the N95, which had a beautiful camera.
i have v20 firmware.
i upgraded from the v12 last friday, the camera wasn't this bad before the upgrade.
it had the shiny paper look about the photos but not the spots.
the lens was clean.
i am not keen to do a reset, in case it goes back to v12
and often the daytime photos just look dusty and dirty.
is there anything i can do to improve the photo quality?
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