Digital cameras 101

[BambamNJ]

FujiFilm F810 has a Quality Mode setting. I was recently in Florida and took a bunch of pictures with this camera. The quality setting was on 6m setting, which I assumed would give me the best quality photos.
Upon getting home and moving the photos over to my computer, I was saddened to see that every photo was messed up. Every Photo had what I can only describe as power waves running through them. These 'lines' circulated through each photo, almost as if I was picking up some magnetic waves eminating from the subjects in the photos. Most of the photos where indoor but some were outdoor.
I reset my camera to the .03m quality setting and took more photos and other then my issue with taking outdoor photos the new photos look great.
Can anyone explain why using the 6m setting would give me this effect?
Thanks Again

[Deb]

Hi BambamNJ, you're correct in assuming the 6m setting should give you higher quality images than the .03m setting. As to why you are seeing artifacts in these images, I'm stumped I'm sorry to say. What file format were you shooting in? Was it RAW mode, Tiff or JPG?

Can you post one or two of these online for us to view?

(see your other post for additional comments)

[BambamNJ]

If you go here:
http://home.comcast.net/~dbstow/

you will see some of my photo's

The first three are of the ones I took in Florida, The first is the best of the 42 photos I took the next two are of the worst.

The next three photos are examples of what I get when I take outdoor photo's. I took these this morning outside my house.

[Deb]

Hi BambamNJ. I was out of town yesterday so am now just seeing these images.

In a word ... Whoa!!!! The patterning is definitely a bad sign. I know I've seen that problem before but can't recall where. I'll look for it online. I'd say your camera is up to some odd tricks. Perhaps your firmware is corrupt. That would be my first guess. Even the blown shots (overexposed) show poor focusing and a slight patterning. Have you contacted Fujifilm support?

BTW, do the images look like this when viewed with the camera's LCD?