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| Thread ID: 55212 | 2005-03-05 08:50:00 | Digital camera recommendations for indoors | marko (7039) | PC World Chat |
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| 330965 | 2005-03-06 12:10:00 | Woops.. Cams don't have ISO 6400. They have 3200. Normally this is fine. But RAW does allow 2 stops more .. so yeah.. Not easy type of photog.. :D | Nomad (952) | ||
| 330966 | 2005-03-06 20:49:00 | You've received some excellent advice here Marko. In particular Nomad sets out the technical issues very well. I know what you mean. My wife took some photos with our Canon A70 at a school prizegiving in December. Disappointingly only about one in four was any good - and marginal at that. I take the bull by the horns at these times and stand up and move forward. If you are quick, it is only a momentary annoyance for the audience. And it is a oncer for a special pic. Apart from that, use aperture priority, choose the widest f stop (2.8) and ISO 400 for "film" speed. There is a fundamental problem here. Astronomy is akin to indoors photography. The best telescopes are not long and thin with huge magnification. Instead they are fat with modest magnification. But the key is the light-gathering ability of the lens. Wide lenses gather lots of light which in turn means lots of information. Professional photographers use fast wide lenses to get the difficult shots. Consumer level digital cameras have remarkably small lenses. This makes them light and compact. But the price we pay is that we trade off the amount of information the camera is able to capture. So frankly, you are limited by the camera. Having said that, most of us can live with it because this is still an astonishing technology with good quality results. Good luck. |
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| 330967 | 2005-03-07 02:04:00 | This pic will show what can be done with available light using a zoom. sal.neoburn.net simply turn off the flash and let the camera do what it does best. |
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