The DC3800's white balance system again did a nice job, producing a fairly accurate color balance throughout the image, although there's a somewhat greenish cast overall. Because the overwhelming amount of blue in this shot often tricks digicams, we're pretty impressed with the DC3800's performance. A moderate amount of noise is present throughout the image, mostly visible in the blue background. Below is our standard resolution and quality series. Thanks to its wide angle lens and somewhat large minimum shooting distance, the DC3800 isn't a fantastic performer in the macro category.
Color balance looks great, though resolution and detail are a little lacking in both images.
We did notice that resolution stayed relatively crisp with the digital telephoto enabled. The DC3800 does a nice job with the color on this shot, although the overall white balance is just a little bit toward the green. The large cyan, magenta and yellow color blocks look pretty accurate, although the cyan and yellow blocks are a little undersaturated. The shadow area of the briquettes shows a reasonable amount of detail, with moderately high noise, and most of the details in the white gauze area are visible as well. Overall a surprisingly good image from this very simple camera.