Re: Look Ma, No Flash

Dan Bracuk wrote:
> Last week I tried something new - new for me that is. I took all my
> photos with natural light only. The good news is that the good ones
> were much better than they would have been with flash. No shadows and
> no backscatter.
>
> The bad news is that I left the camera on fully automatic, except for
> the no flash part. That meant that in pretty well 100% of the low
> light situations, the shutter speed, or whatever you call that with
> digital cameras was too slow and my pictures were blurry.
>
> Next trip, manual f-stop and shutter speed settings. Anybody got any
> suggestions for something that might work? The camera is a 4
> megapixel Sony point and shoot.

Are you looking for suggestions as to what to set the f-stop to? Using
the manual settings, try taking some low light photos above ground of
the same object with different settings, until you get a feel for what
the difference is for the range available with your camera. The
smaller the f-stop number, the wider the opening and the more light the
aperture lets in. A given f-stop lets in twice as much light as the
next higher f-stop. With my digital (also a sony), you only have to
adjust one and the other adjusts automatically, that is, adjust the
f-stop setting and shutter speed will change accordingly.

Does that help?
kari

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> Dan Bracuk