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many questions: choosing new compact, fixing low light blur, learning manual controls, photoshop, etc..
howdy, i'm considering buying a new camera, i currently own a canon
sd450 and i like it a lot but would like to get a camera with more manual controls. i have no experience with manual controls besides the very limited ones on my canon but would love to learn and practice using them on a pocket sized compact. i carry my camera everywhere and have gotten a lot of neat shots because of that so i don't want anything even remotely bulky. i like to shoot panorama's so any increase in optical zoom or megapixels is welcome, the biggest panorama i've made so far is around 50 megapixels which is overkill for printing but i just like being able to zoom in on my panorama's while retaining as much detail as possible.. the rest of the time i just use my camera for taking pictures on trips or of friends/family, standard fare. i'd like to start using my camera to take pictures of action though, specifically skiing. my biggest problem with my camera is with low light shots. in low light, say indoors, its hard to take a picture without flash at a low iso without getting blur from camera movement because of the slow shutter speed (if thats what its called, the loooong delay between when you click and when the picture gets taken when at a low iso in low light). if i increase the iso the image becomes visibly grainy at 100 iso and at 200 iso its just ruins the picture for me, forget about 400... so i just end up taking 3-4 pictures and usually one of them is sharp enough. beats taking one grainy picture. i try to brace my elbows on something but thats usually not possible. the only other alternative is using flash and i hate flash, nothing ever looks remotely the same as it does with your own eyes and i often end up with a super bright foreground and a pitch black background which is useless to me. so what would be better at solving my problem, getting a camera with image stabilization (ie canon is700) or getting a camera with cleaner and higher iso's (ie fuji f30)? my next problem is subject movement, like i said before i want to start taking action shots.. its not something i've ever really tooled with but i figure it shouldn't be a problem outdoors but indoors in less than perfect light, if i take a picture of someone and they're even just moving their arm or something, it blurs, even at iso400.. the only way to get the picture without them blurring is with flash which again, i despise. it would be nice to get a picture of my mother rocking her grandson without me having to say 'stop rocking' so that nothing blurs. what can i do to solve this?? and i read a lot about people improving their pictures with photoshop, sharpening, fixing colours, reducing noise, etc.. are there any books or online guides for this? maybe something like a basic guide that explains the most useful and commonly used things you can do to in photoshop to improve your pictures..? and if i end up with a camera with full or near full manual controls, whats a good photography book that can help me to take better pictures and also help me learn to properly use the manual controls thats not too overwhelming? and finally what camera would you guys reccomend? the canon is700 looks good because of its image stabilization, 4x zoom and extra megapixel (good for panoramas).. but it doesn't have anymore manual controls (not good for learning anything new) than i currently have.. the fuji f30 seems to be well regarded, and has nearly full manual control (good for learning) and apparently has the best high iso performance (good for my low light blurriness problem).. i know it has no optical viewfinder but i -never- use mine (i've taken dozens of comparison shots looking through the viewfinder and looking through the lcd in my standard position with the camera 5 inches from my nose and have not found there to be -any- difference in blurriness, plus its far easier to look at an lcd and you actually see everything you're taking a picture unlike the viewfinder which cuts off about 10% of the border). however looking at the reviews on this site, the colour in the pictures taken with the f30 don't look that great compared to those taken with the canon who's colours are much more lush (scroll down to the bottle). http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/fu...ew/index.shtml http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/ca..._sd700-review/ compare with the sony dslr and its obvious the f30 is the odd man out.. http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/so...ew/index.shtml help! |
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