better p&s performance

For most digital p&s cams, try:

* set camera to manual mode, if possible.

* set shutter speed to 1/200

* set aperture to f/8

turn flash on

This should give you better stop action performance than you'll get with
"auto" mode.

Also, if you set your camera to focus manually, you can utilize the extended
DOF of p&s cams to give a rather useful "hyperfocal" range. Then, just
start clicking.

You'll have a greatly reduced shutter lag, because your cam won't be
auto-focusing, and it won't be slowed down trying to figure out the
exposure.

But, of course, you will have to wait for your flash to recharge after each
shot...

Take Care,
Dudley


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"Rich" wrote in message
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f8 with those s------ little sensors means diffraction HELL. I know
the pieces of CRAP show huge lens aberrations wide open (they cost
about $0.50 to make most of them) but diffraction is even seen with
some of them with the lens wide open. Talk about P&S Catch 22!!! GET
A DSLR!!!!!


Try changing the record!!!!!

I just received 300 photos from my Sister, taken with their DSLR on a recent
vacation. What a load of cr*p most of them were, no depth of field, about
50% of the photos useless due to either the background or the foreground
unintentionally being completely out of focus.

Half the owner's of DSLRs haven't got a clue how to use them, with loads of
owners simply leaving their cameras in automatic mode, as they're too
complicated for them to understand.

Having an expensive brick does not a photographer make. My P&S photos from
the same vacation are head and shoulders above the photos that my Sister's
family took with their expensive, cumbersome Canon DSLR.

Dudley Hanks wrote:
For most digital p&s cams, try:

* set camera to manual mode, if possible.

* set shutter speed to 1/200

* set aperture to f/8

turn flash on

This should give you better stop action performance than you'll get with
"auto" mode.

Also, if you set your camera to focus manually, you can utilize the extended
DOF of p&s cams to give a rather useful "hyperfocal" range. Then, just
start clicking.

You'll have a greatly reduced shutter lag, because your cam won't be
auto-focusing, and it won't be slowed down trying to figure out the
exposure.

Correct - the picture will simply be randomly mis-exposed.

BugBear

On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:56:58 +0000, bugbear
wrote:

Dudley Hanks wrote:
For most digital p&s cams, try:

* set camera to manual mode, if possible.

* set shutter speed to 1/200

* set aperture to f/8

turn flash on

This should give you better stop action performance than you'll get with
"auto" mode.

Also, if you set your camera to focus manually, you can utilize the extended
DOF of p&s cams to give a rather useful "hyperfocal" range. Then, just
start clicking.

You'll have a greatly reduced shutter lag, because your cam won't be
auto-focusing, and it won't be slowed down trying to figure out the
exposure.

Correct - the picture will simply be randomly mis-exposed.

BugBear

What does that matter to Dudley. He's trying to find a camera setup that
even a blind person can use. None of his photos have ever been properly
exposed. What he can't see doesn't, and won't, matter. His is a pursuit of
"art", trying to show the world what it's like to be blind through the lens
of a camera (or something as equally lame as that). As said before, this is
like watching a paraplegic flopping around on the dance floor exclaiming
what a fine ballet dancer he'll be one day, if he only keeps trying.

Now if he even knew something about hyperfocal ranges, he'd know that he
didn't even have to use f/8 for most of his images. If any of these other
DSLR-Moron-Trolls knew anything about photography, they'd know that too.
Thus proving that not ONE of them knows how to use ANY camera properly.

In article , Fred
wrote:

I just received 300 photos from my Sister, taken with their DSLR on a recent
vacation. What a load of cr*p most of them were, no depth of field, about
50% of the photos useless due to either the background or the foreground
unintentionally being completely out of focus.

A clue is a terrible thing to waste.

Half the owner's of DSLRs haven't got a clue how to use them, with loads of
owners simply leaving their cameras in automatic mode, as they're too
complicated for them to understand.

Bingo!

Having an expensive brick does not a photographer make. My P&S photos from
the same vacation are head and shoulders above the photos that my Sister's
family took with their expensive, cumbersome Canon DSLR.

There's no magic in the box.

"bugbear" wrote in message
o.uk...
Dudley Hanks wrote:
For most digital p&s cams, try:

* set camera to manual mode, if possible.

* set shutter speed to 1/200

* set aperture to f/8

turn flash on

This should give you better stop action performance than you'll get with
"auto" mode.

Also, if you set your camera to focus manually, you can utilize the
extended DOF of p&s cams to give a rather useful "hyperfocal" range.
Then, just start clicking.

You'll have a greatly reduced shutter lag, because your cam won't be
auto-focusing, and it won't be slowed down trying to figure out the
exposure.

Correct - the picture will simply be randomly mis-exposed.

BugBear


If your ISO is set to 100 and you're shooting indoors, I doubt you'll find
many over exposed shots. The biggest problem with these settings is
shooting outside on a bright day. Then you're better off using auto, or
some other setting...

Of course, the post was meant for novice recreational shooters who simply
want an easy way to speed their p&s camera up a bit in low-light
situations...

Take Care,
Dudley

"Outing Trolls is FUN!" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:56:58 +0000, bugbear
wrote:

Dudley Hanks wrote:
For most digital p&s cams, try:

* set camera to manual mode, if possible.

* set shutter speed to 1/200

* set aperture to f/8

turn flash on

This should give you better stop action performance than you'll get with
"auto" mode.

Also, if you set your camera to focus manually, you can utilize the
extended
DOF of p&s cams to give a rather useful "hyperfocal" range. Then, just
start clicking.

You'll have a greatly reduced shutter lag, because your cam won't be
auto-focusing, and it won't be slowed down trying to figure out the
exposure.

Correct - the picture will simply be randomly mis-exposed.

BugBear

What does that matter to Dudley. He's trying to find a camera setup that
even a blind person can use. None of his photos have ever been properly
exposed. What he can't see doesn't, and won't, matter. His is a pursuit of
"art", trying to show the world what it's like to be blind through the
lens
of a camera (or something as equally lame as that). As said before, this
is
like watching a paraplegic flopping around on the dance floor exclaiming
what a fine ballet dancer he'll be one day, if he only keeps trying.

Now if he even knew something about hyperfocal ranges, he'd know that he
didn't even have to use f/8 for most of his images. If any of these other
DSLR-Moron-Trolls knew anything about photography, they'd know that too.
Thus proving that not ONE of them knows how to use ANY camera properly.


I'm waiting for your critique of my latest hockey shot...

Take Care,
Dudley

Dudley Hanks wrote:
"bugbear" wrote in message
o.uk...
Dudley Hanks wrote:
For most digital p&s cams, try:

* set camera to manual mode, if possible.

* set shutter speed to 1/200

* set aperture to f/8

turn flash on

This should give you better stop action performance than you'll get with
"auto" mode.

Also, if you set your camera to focus manually, you can utilize the
extended DOF of p&s cams to give a rather useful "hyperfocal" range.
Then, just start clicking.

You'll have a greatly reduced shutter lag, because your cam won't be
auto-focusing, and it won't be slowed down trying to figure out the
exposure.
Correct - the picture will simply be randomly mis-exposed.

BugBear


If your ISO is set to 100 and you're shooting indoors, I doubt you'll find
many over exposed shots. The biggest problem with these settings is
shooting outside on a bright day. Then you're better off using auto, or
some other setting...

Of course, the post was meant for novice recreational shooters who simply
want an easy way to speed their p&s camera up a bit in low-light
situations...

Then perhaps you should have detailed the context
in which your advice was intended to be helpful.

BugBear

"bugbear" wrote in message
o.uk...
Dudley Hanks wrote:
"bugbear" wrote in message
o.uk...
Dudley Hanks wrote:
For most digital p&s cams, try:

* set camera to manual mode, if possible.

* set shutter speed to 1/200

* set aperture to f/8

turn flash on

This should give you better stop action performance than you'll get
with "auto" mode.

Also, if you set your camera to focus manually, you can utilize the
extended DOF of p&s cams to give a rather useful "hyperfocal" range.
Then, just start clicking.

You'll have a greatly reduced shutter lag, because your cam won't be
auto-focusing, and it won't be slowed down trying to figure out the
exposure.
Correct - the picture will simply be randomly mis-exposed.

BugBear


If your ISO is set to 100 and you're shooting indoors, I doubt you'll
find many over exposed shots. The biggest problem with these settings is
shooting outside on a bright day. Then you're better off using auto, or
some other setting...

Of course, the post was meant for novice recreational shooters who simply
want an easy way to speed their p&s camera up a bit in low-light
situations...

Then perhaps you should have detailed the context
in which your advice was intended to be helpful.

BugBear

Point noted... I'll try to do that in the future...

Take Care,
Dudley

You are a (un)lovely piece of work.