Are specific camera hardware questions on-topic?

Question

I have a digital camera that is a few years old, and has a specific kind of image quality problems, especially in darker settings.

I'm not a professional photographer, so I'm having a hard time telling whether this is due to some setting I screwed up (or something else I'm doing wrong), or a sign of decay in the camera's hardware.

Would this (including some images to illustrate the problem) be an on-topic question on photography SE?

Answer 1

I'd imagine these image problems are probably not limited to your camera but probably afflict a number of digital cameras.

So describe the problem first and leave the camera model as a footnote.