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Image Quality Indoors
After years using a 1 megapixel digital (Olympus D400), I decided it
was time for a newer camera. I was generally pleased with the quality of the Olympus except for indoor photos with flash, which had poor quality if I was more than about 10 feet away. I picked a Canon SD400, mostly because of its convenient size, knowing I couldn't be sure of the quality until I started using it. I was expecting some improvement over the old Olympus, but I'm finding indoor photos are still extremely disappointing, particularly with flash. When I have a tripod or something to lean on to use available light without camera shake, the quality is much better. But that's not always feasible. I've tried different settings, including different ISO's and indoor, with little difference. I still use film for anything serious, but it's much more convenient to use a digital for a lot of stuff, particularly ordinary snapshots and stuff I want on the web. Any suggestions? -- Alan Stein |
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"Alan Stein" wrote in message ... After years using a 1 megapixel digital (Olympus D400), I decided it was time for a newer camera. I was generally pleased with the quality of the Olympus except for indoor photos with flash, which had poor quality if I was more than about 10 feet away. I picked a Canon SD400, mostly because of its convenient size, knowing I couldn't be sure of the quality until I started using it. I was expecting some improvement over the old Olympus, but I'm finding indoor photos are still extremely disappointing, particularly with flash. When I have a tripod or something to lean on to use available light without camera shake, the quality is much better. But that's not always feasible. I've tried different settings, including different ISO's and indoor, with little difference. BIG interiors cannot be effectively illuminated by a puny on-board flash. I still use film for anything serious, but it's much more convenient to use a digital for a lot of stuff, particularly ordinary snapshots and stuff I want on the web. I am not sure why anyone, with the needs you posted, would make a statement like that ... "film for anything serious". Are you serious or are you a troll? |
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On 2005-11-19, Alan Stein wrote:
After years using a 1 megapixel digital (Olympus D400), I decided it was time for a newer camera. I was generally pleased with the quality of the Olympus except for indoor photos with flash, which had poor quality if I was more than about 10 feet away. I picked a Canon SD400, mostly because of its convenient size, knowing I couldn't be sure of the quality until I started using it. I was expecting some improvement over the old Olympus, but I'm finding indoor photos are still extremely disappointing, particularly with flash. When I have a tripod or something to lean on to use available light without camera shake, the quality is much better. But that's not always feasible. I've tried different settings, including different ISO's and indoor, with little difference. I still use film for anything serious, but it's much more convenient to use a digital for a lot of stuff, particularly ordinary snapshots and stuff I want on the web. Any suggestions? Ten feet is probably beyond the effective range of any built-in flash gun. Have you tried placing additional 'remote' flash guns with triggers operated by the small flash from the camera's own gun, to get lighting 'in depth'? I don't know how well that would work with an automatic camera, but if you have a manual mode that lets you set the aperture and exposure time, and operate the on-board flash, then the experiments might be rewarding. It's a bit more than 'point and shoot' though, and not really a digital-versus-chemical thing either. -- -- ^^^^^^^^^^ -- Whiskers -- ~~~~~~~~~~ |
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