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Hi All - I hope you can help me! I have Finepix M603 camera and although I
take reasonable shots in daytime, I'm not able to produce anything at night. eg On The Thames on New Years Eve, may people were using digital cameras and their screens showed clear and bright pictures - mine was black! What setting should I set on mine? Any advice really appreciated. --- David Scott Hampshire, England |
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Flash ON!? :-)
Guy Dave wrote: Hi All - I hope you can help me! I have Finepix M603 camera and although I take reasonable shots in daytime, I'm not able to produce anything at night. eg On The Thames on New Years Eve, may people were using digital cameras and their screens showed clear and bright pictures - mine was black! What setting should I set on mine? Any advice really appreciated. --- David Scott Hampshire, England |
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Yes, flash is on and camera is set to Auto.
-- --- David Scott Hampshire, England "Bigguy" wrote in message ... Flash ON!? :-) Guy Dave wrote: Hi All - I hope you can help me! I have Finepix M603 camera and although I take reasonable shots in daytime, I'm not able to produce anything at night. eg On The Thames on New Years Eve, may people were using digital cameras and their screens showed clear and bright pictures - mine was black! What setting should I set on mine? Any advice really appreciated. --- David Scott Hampshire, England |
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On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:01:49 -0000
"Dave" wrote: Yes, flash is on and camera is set to Auto. When you push the shutter button, does the flash fire? Does the resulting picture look OK? Not all cameras "gain up" their displays in low light. Yours is apparently not doing it automatically, but it might have a brightness control in the menus somewhere. Paul Allen |
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Dave wrote:
: Yes, flash is on and camera is set to Auto. You mentioned that you were taking photos of scenery. Most built in flashes are only effective up to about 12 ft. So even with a flash, trying to get a photo of anything further away than that will be dark. Also be sure to check what ISO your camera is set for. Not all cameras auto set the ISO. So it could be that the "everyone else" who were getting useable photos in the dark were shooting with an ISO of 1600 or even 3200. And if you are stuck on ISO 100 it may be that your camera can just not set a long enough shutter speed to correct. BTW, I know that this is silly but it's amazing how often this can catch even experienced photogs. Did you take the lens cap off? One more plus for an SLR. If you don't take the cap off, you can't focus or line up the shot through the viewfinder without noticing something is wrong. Randy ========== Randy Berbaum Champaign, IL |
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Il 11/01/2007 08:38, Randy Berbaum dixit:
Dave wrote: Yes, flash is on and camera is set to Auto. Also be sure to check what ISO your camera is set for. You can discover a lot looking at the exif data contained in the photo: all the camera settings are there. To see them without sophisticated software, you can install the Firefox Exif Viewer extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3905/ Cyrus The Virus, from Italy -- I love to be mailed just by smart people: perl -we 'print "\12\142\145\162\156\141\155\141\100\151". "\164\167\145\142\56\151\164\12\12";' |
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