General Photography Discussions.

Alexithymia.:

borndead.:

When I started using DSLRs, it was the first time in my life I read a manual.
;____;

Same.

I felt like a preschooler holding a camera for the first time.

But getting there, and need to have another look at the manual.

One mistake I won't again, and holy hell is this gonna make me look stupid, but the first time I used my DSLR, I accidently held my hand in front of the flash.

Never doing that shit again.

Lol, don't worry, I did that the other day. I need to get the side shoulder thing, because at the moment I hold onto the lens.

Cristina Scabbia:

I have a Sony Cybershot DSC-W35.

What's the best setting to use on it to take good photos at gigs? Mine all seem to come out really rubbish when I take them using the "auto" setting.

Sara:

Cristina Scabbia:

I have a Sony Cybershot DSC-W35.

What's the best setting to use on it to take good photos at gigs? Mine all seem to come out really rubbish when I take them using the "auto" setting.

Is there a 'fast' or 'action' setting? It should like like a little green man running. Use that and set your ISO/ASA up as high as you can. But if you want to make your pictures prints larger than postcard, they'll be rather noisy.

borndead.:

Alexithymia.:

borndead.:

When I started using DSLRs, it was the first time in my life I read a manual.
;____;

Same.

I felt like a preschooler holding a camera for the first time.

But getting there, and need to have another look at the manual.

One mistake I won't again, and holy hell is this gonna make me look stupid, but the first time I used my DSLR, I accidently held my hand in front of the flash.

Never doing that shit again.

Lol, don't worry, I did that the other day. I need to get the side shoulder thing, because at the moment I hold onto the lens.

Sara:

Cristina Scabbia:

I have a Sony Cybershot DSC-W35.

What's the best setting to use on it to take good photos at gigs? Mine all seem to come out really rubbish when I take them using the "auto" setting.

Is there a 'fast' or 'action' setting? It should like like a little green man running. Use that and set your ISO/ASA up as high as you can. But if you want to make your pictures prints larger than postcard, they'll be rather noisy.

Sara:

Really?

On mine, I was in S mode [shutter priority], and I couldn't change the ISO either, but then I changed it to fast mode, I could change it.


K, reading up on your camera, you have a Scene Mode, which you can "bump to ISO to 1000"

Another quote that seems to contradict my last quote "Control over the ISO setting is only available in program auto mode."

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Curtis Ward.:

Hi, again. So, next year for school, I'm doing photography as one of my electives. Mum is going to get a 35ml SLR camera. Does anybody have some information I should know before going into the course? Thanks.

Lies for a Liar:

Question; For large professional cameras, i.e. not a compact one, who makes them best: Canon, Nikon or Sony?[/size]

Sara:

Lies for a Liar:

Question; For large professional cameras, i.e. not a compact one, who makes them best: Canon, Nikon or Sony?[/size]

DSLR? The ones with chanable lenses?

There are a lot more than just those three, there are Olympus [but they are crap, stay away], Pentax and a bunch of others. and there is no diffante winner. I perfer my Pentax K10D over a Canon or Nikon anyday.

Nikon vs. Canon
"The Best Camera"

Lies for a Liar:

Curtis Ward.:

Hi, again. So, next year for school, I'm doing photography as one of my electives. Mum is going to get a 35ml SLR camera. Does anybody have some information I should know before going into the course? Thanks.

I'm not sure where you're from so I don't know what your course will be like, but I took/am taking photography for a GCSE and what we have to do is create a 'work journal'. We have to choose a subject, I'm doing plants and landscapes, and we have to go out and take photos of our subject, print out the contact sheet and comment on it, and we have to find influences and photograph in response to their photography. Then you develop on your ideas and experimant a bit until you produce a set of photographs as your final piece. It involves a lot of your spare time. You have to do two work journals and at the end we have a 10 hour exam spread over a week (five days). I'm only doing one project because I'm incoprerating it with my fine art GCSE because I don't want to have to fit 20 hours of exams into one week (so I have one photography project, one fine art project and I can do the exam in whichever I choose.). Yours might be completely different, but that's a taster of what I have to do.

Ah, thank you!

^^^^^^^^

Anytime

Sara:

^ My camera has bloody amazing battery life, I've had it since January 1st 08 and I've maybe charged the battery 7/8 times. And my baby doesn't just sit on a shelf. He's abused more than I would like, but he has a weather proof [read: he can get wet, just not go underwater] coating so I feel rather safe dropping him.

Pentax just released the K20D, so if you could find the k10d for 600$ish, but the k20d has live view and 14.3mp. [if you're into that kind of thing, (the k10d has 10.2mp fyi)]

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Yeah, price does have a factor over what it provides and how it can perform.

Lies for a Liar:

^ Canon and Pentax's DSLRs (from what I've heard from various people on the Pentax one) tend to be really good. Nikon's are okay but I'd choose my dad's Canon over the Nikons I've used any day, but it's mainly because when the shutter goes to take the photo it's a bit weird and sometimes you think you've taken a photo when you haven't and vice versa. With Olymus's I've never used an slr but their smaller camera's aren't as good, in my opinion. I mean they take good enough photos and the quality is good but they lack behind when it comes to shutter speed and battery life. Doesn't mean to say their big ones aren't good though. Fujifilm make really good compacts, and I've only used one of their DSLR's and it's pretty good, but I personally prefer to use Canons. They're a lot more professional than a Fujifilm, and they have weird lenses.

Most of that is just from experience using those makes, and I'm still waiting for a camera whizz to tell me if I should steer clear of any of the cameras I posted in my post above yours XD. But I hope helped a little bit o.O