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Jim
Sounds like you are using a Kodak in the DX series, Try the sport settings, meant for movement, You will get the best results on bright sunny days when there is plenty of light and follow the advice in the previous post. Make sure that there is nothing close in the picture, you will be moving too fast relative to the close objects. Do read the help /tutorial information that came on the CD or download it from the Kodak site if you haven't got a copy. Read about the optimum settings for what you want to photograph. I have a DX6440, a great camera for snapshots, portraits, sport, and street scenes, the flash is great stron but reduces very well for close up photos of people. I would like a bit more clear detail in the landscape photos. With digital you will be able to review the image immediately after you have taken it. PS - disable the digital zoom and stick with optical zoom for best results, enable digital zoom only for those images when you need to capture a picture and the quality doesn't matter. Phil "Jim Townsend" wrote in message ... Travis E Wethington wrote: I'm getting ready to take a cross-country train trip and would welcome any advice for PAS settings on my digital camera. I'm very new to anything other than point and click with my camera so specific settings and reasons would be very helpful as I desire to learn how to take pictures, what each manual setting is, and why I would want to adjust each setting in a particular way. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Without knowing what camera you are using, the only two 'rules of thumb' would be to: 1) use the highest shutter speed you can and 2) try not to shoot through glass.. If you have to shoot through glass, get the lens as close as possible. That will reduce reflections. |
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Jim Townsend wrote: Travis E Wethington wrote: I'm getting ready to take a cross-country train trip and would welcome any advice for PAS settings on my digital camera. I'm very new to anything other than point and click with my camera so specific settings and reasons would be very helpful as I desire to learn how to take pictures, what each manual setting is, and why I would want to adjust each setting in a particular way. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Without knowing what camera you are using, the only two 'rules of thumb' would be to: 1) use the highest shutter speed you can and 2) try not to shoot through glass.. If you have to shoot through glass, get the lens as close as possible. That will reduce reflections. Hi... And bring along an extra bottle of lens cleaner and wipes... to clean the tiny portion of window you use. Easy to clean a couple of square inches on the inside If anyone's interested, I made myself an "adaptor" that seems to work very very well... for only a couple of dollars in materials. Bought a sheet of black foam - supposed to be an air filter for a window air conditioner - and a small tube of contact cement. Cut a strip the width of the lens extension, the length just enough to snugly go around the lens barrel (the portion that doesn't move). Glued the ends with contact cement. Cut another strip that fit snugly around that, glued it to the first all around. Kept repeating with longer and longer strips 'till I'd built up the 2 inches or so to about 4 or 5 inches. (time consuming) Once there cut another strip 'bout 6 inches wide, and long enough to go around the whole shooting match with a bit of overlap. Glue this all the way round the other piece, and overlap glue that part that "sticks out" Finally, cut a dozen "slits" of an inch or two in the end. This way you can press it against a window at an angle. (naturally you're going to get crisper pictures of where you're going or where you've been than you will of what you're passing) Finally, don't think they'd appreciate it, but if your camera allows custom white balance, then bring along a small piece of 22% gray card and some good tape pre-attached. Get whoever sees you off to slap it against the corner of one of the windows just before the train moves out Hope this helps a bit... Ken to |
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Hi Travis
I may have misread or misinterpreted what you put - saying that here are my key points: 1 - get to know your camera - a half press on the shoot button usually focusses the camera devices and sorts shutter & ISO settings all at the same time (try this with stationary objects first until you get really good at it) 2 - panning. If you can P&S thru an open window = great. This may allow you to follow the object you want to take a picture of by rotating or panning the camera so you follow the object. You can try this by taking pics of slow moving cars (for example) 3 - Put 1 & 2 together and practise until you are good at both The great thing about digital photography is that you may practise these techniques and view the results on camera LCD screen or computer without having to waste rolls & rolls of film. I hope you have phun! Arts "Travis E Wethington" wrote in message om... I'm getting ready to take a cross-country train trip and would welcome any advice for PAS settings on my digital camera. I'm very new to anything other than point and click with my camera so specific settings and reasons would be very helpful as I desire to learn how to take pictures, what each manual setting is, and why I would want to adjust each setting in a particular way. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. |
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Hi Travis
I may have misread or misinterpreted what you put - saying that here are my key points: 1 - get to know your camera - a half press on the shoot button usually focusses the camera devices and sorts shutter & ISO settings all at the same time (try this with stationary objects first until you get really good at it) 2 - panning. If you can P&S thru an open window = great. This may allow you to follow the object you want to take a picture of by rotating or panning the camera so you follow the object. You can try this by taking pics of slow moving cars (for example) 3 - Put 1 & 2 together and practise until you are good at both The great thing about digital photography is that you may practise these techniques and view the results on camera LCD screen or computer without having to waste rolls & rolls of film. I hope you have phun! Arts "Travis E Wethington" wrote in message om... I'm getting ready to take a cross-country train trip and would welcome any advice for PAS settings on my digital camera. I'm very new to anything other than point and click with my camera so specific settings and reasons would be very helpful as I desire to learn how to take pictures, what each manual setting is, and why I would want to adjust each setting in a particular way. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. |
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Travis E Wethington wrote:
I'm getting ready to take a cross-country train trip and would welcome any advice for PAS settings on my digital camera. I'm very new to anything other than point and click with my camera so specific settings and reasons would be very helpful as I desire to learn how to take pictures, what each manual setting is, and why I would want to adjust each setting in a particular way. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Does your camera have a 'landscape' mode? If so, that usually sets the focus at infinity making it unnecessary to wait for focus. The settings for shutter and aperture can probably be left on auto for trouble-free pictures. For special cases, and difficult pictures, you can use the PAS settings. Needless to say, if you want to be able to capture any images of things fairly near the train, you will have to have a very fast shutter speed and you will have to be quick on the 'trigger'. I have some very nice pictures taken from the car with my DX6440, all in landscape mode. |
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Ken Weitzel wrote:
Jim Townsend wrote: Travis E Wethington wrote: I'm getting ready to take a cross-country train trip and would welcome any advice for PAS settings on my digital camera. I'm very new to anything other than point and click with my camera so specific settings and reasons would be very helpful as I desire to learn how to take pictures, what each manual setting is, and why I would want to adjust each setting in a particular way. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Without knowing what camera you are using, the only two 'rules of thumb' would be to: 1) use the highest shutter speed you can and 2) try not to shoot through glass.. If you have to shoot through glass, get the lens as close as possible. That will reduce reflections. Hi... And bring along an extra bottle of lens cleaner and wipes... to clean the tiny portion of window you use. Easy to clean a couple of square inches on the inside If anyone's interested, I made myself an "adaptor" that seems to work very very well... for only a couple of dollars in materials. Bought a sheet of black foam - supposed to be an air filter for a window air conditioner - and a small tube of contact cement. Cut a strip the width of the lens extension, the length just enough to snugly go around the lens barrel (the portion that doesn't move). Glued the ends with contact cement. Cut another strip that fit snugly around that, glued it to the first all around. Kept repeating with longer and longer strips 'till I'd built up the 2 inches or so to about 4 or 5 inches. (time consuming) Once there cut another strip 'bout 6 inches wide, and long enough to go around the whole shooting match with a bit of overlap. Glue this all the way round the other piece, and overlap glue that part that "sticks out" Finally, cut a dozen "slits" of an inch or two in the end. This way you can press it against a window at an angle. (naturally you're going to get crisper pictures of where you're going or where you've been than you will of what you're passing) Finally, don't think they'd appreciate it, but if your camera allows custom white balance, then bring along a small piece of 22% gray card and some good tape pre-attached. Get whoever sees you off to slap it against the corner of one of the windows just before the train moves out Hope this helps a bit...n Ken to You didn't mention that after all that, you might find that the train windows (usually tinted) will render autofocus unreliable (you will probably focus on the window). Another reason to set the focus for landscape. |
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Ken Weitzel wrote:
Jim Townsend wrote: Travis E Wethington wrote: I'm getting ready to take a cross-country train trip and would welcome any advice for PAS settings on my digital camera. I'm very new to anything other than point and click with my camera so specific settings and reasons would be very helpful as I desire to learn how to take pictures, what each manual setting is, and why I would want to adjust each setting in a particular way. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Without knowing what camera you are using, the only two 'rules of thumb' would be to: 1) use the highest shutter speed you can and 2) try not to shoot through glass.. If you have to shoot through glass, get the lens as close as possible. That will reduce reflections. Hi... And bring along an extra bottle of lens cleaner and wipes... to clean the tiny portion of window you use. Easy to clean a couple of square inches on the inside If anyone's interested, I made myself an "adaptor" that seems to work very very well... for only a couple of dollars in materials. Bought a sheet of black foam - supposed to be an air filter for a window air conditioner - and a small tube of contact cement. Cut a strip the width of the lens extension, the length just enough to snugly go around the lens barrel (the portion that doesn't move). Glued the ends with contact cement. Cut another strip that fit snugly around that, glued it to the first all around. Kept repeating with longer and longer strips 'till I'd built up the 2 inches or so to about 4 or 5 inches. (time consuming) Once there cut another strip 'bout 6 inches wide, and long enough to go around the whole shooting match with a bit of overlap. Glue this all the way round the other piece, and overlap glue that part that "sticks out" Finally, cut a dozen "slits" of an inch or two in the end. This way you can press it against a window at an angle. (naturally you're going to get crisper pictures of where you're going or where you've been than you will of what you're passing) Finally, don't think they'd appreciate it, but if your camera allows custom white balance, then bring along a small piece of 22% gray card and some good tape pre-attached. Get whoever sees you off to slap it against the corner of one of the windows just before the train moves out Hope this helps a bit...n Ken to You didn't mention that after all that, you might find that the train windows (usually tinted) will render autofocus unreliable (you will probably focus on the window). Another reason to set the focus for landscape. |
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What's the 22% gray card for?
Finally, don't think they'd appreciate it, but if your camera allows custom white balance, then bring along a small piece of 22% gray card and some good tape pre-attached. Get whoever sees you off to slap it against the corner of one of the windows just before the train moves out Thanks "Ron Hunter" wrote in message ... Ken Weitzel wrote: Jim Townsend wrote: Travis E Wethington wrote: I'm getting ready to take a cross-country train trip and would welcome any advice for PAS settings on my digital camera. I'm very new to anything other than point and click with my camera so specific settings and reasons would be very helpful as I desire to learn how to take pictures, what each manual setting is, and why I would want to adjust each setting in a particular way. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Without knowing what camera you are using, the only two 'rules of thumb' would be to: 1) use the highest shutter speed you can and 2) try not to shoot through glass.. If you have to shoot through glass, get the lens as close as possible. That will reduce reflections. Hi... And bring along an extra bottle of lens cleaner and wipes... to clean the tiny portion of window you use. Easy to clean a couple of square inches on the inside If anyone's interested, I made myself an "adaptor" that seems to work very very well... for only a couple of dollars in materials. Bought a sheet of black foam - supposed to be an air filter for a window air conditioner - and a small tube of contact cement. Cut a strip the width of the lens extension, the length just enough to snugly go around the lens barrel (the portion that doesn't move). Glued the ends with contact cement. Cut another strip that fit snugly around that, glued it to the first all around. Kept repeating with longer and longer strips 'till I'd built up the 2 inches or so to about 4 or 5 inches. (time consuming) Once there cut another strip 'bout 6 inches wide, and long enough to go around the whole shooting match with a bit of overlap. Glue this all the way round the other piece, and overlap glue that part that "sticks out" Finally, cut a dozen "slits" of an inch or two in the end. This way you can press it against a window at an angle. (naturally you're going to get crisper pictures of where you're going or where you've been than you will of what you're passing) Finally, don't think they'd appreciate it, but if your camera allows custom white balance, then bring along a small piece of 22% gray card and some good tape pre-attached. Get whoever sees you off to slap it against the corner of one of the windows just before the train moves out Hope this helps a bit...n Ken to You didn't mention that after all that, you might find that the train windows (usually tinted) will render autofocus unreliable (you will probably focus on the window). Another reason to set the focus for landscape. |
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What's the 22% gray card for?
Finally, don't think they'd appreciate it, but if your camera allows custom white balance, then bring along a small piece of 22% gray card and some good tape pre-attached. Get whoever sees you off to slap it against the corner of one of the windows just before the train moves out Thanks "Ron Hunter" wrote in message ... Ken Weitzel wrote: Jim Townsend wrote: Travis E Wethington wrote: I'm getting ready to take a cross-country train trip and would welcome any advice for PAS settings on my digital camera. I'm very new to anything other than point and click with my camera so specific settings and reasons would be very helpful as I desire to learn how to take pictures, what each manual setting is, and why I would want to adjust each setting in a particular way. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Without knowing what camera you are using, the only two 'rules of thumb' would be to: 1) use the highest shutter speed you can and 2) try not to shoot through glass.. If you have to shoot through glass, get the lens as close as possible. That will reduce reflections. Hi... And bring along an extra bottle of lens cleaner and wipes... to clean the tiny portion of window you use. Easy to clean a couple of square inches on the inside If anyone's interested, I made myself an "adaptor" that seems to work very very well... for only a couple of dollars in materials. Bought a sheet of black foam - supposed to be an air filter for a window air conditioner - and a small tube of contact cement. Cut a strip the width of the lens extension, the length just enough to snugly go around the lens barrel (the portion that doesn't move). Glued the ends with contact cement. Cut another strip that fit snugly around that, glued it to the first all around. Kept repeating with longer and longer strips 'till I'd built up the 2 inches or so to about 4 or 5 inches. (time consuming) Once there cut another strip 'bout 6 inches wide, and long enough to go around the whole shooting match with a bit of overlap. Glue this all the way round the other piece, and overlap glue that part that "sticks out" Finally, cut a dozen "slits" of an inch or two in the end. This way you can press it against a window at an angle. (naturally you're going to get crisper pictures of where you're going or where you've been than you will of what you're passing) Finally, don't think they'd appreciate it, but if your camera allows custom white balance, then bring along a small piece of 22% gray card and some good tape pre-attached. Get whoever sees you off to slap it against the corner of one of the windows just before the train moves out Hope this helps a bit...n Ken to You didn't mention that after all that, you might find that the train windows (usually tinted) will render autofocus unreliable (you will probably focus on the window). Another reason to set the focus for landscape. |
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