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11/16/2004 10:43:16 AM · #1 |
Last night was my son's first birthday. I was simply using the automatic focus....All of my pictures turned out like this!!!! What in the world did I do wrong? Does anyone have any suggestions?
Message edited by author 2004-11-16 10:44:25. |
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11/16/2004 10:44:19 AM · #2 |
Looks like it was dark or ISO is high
Message edited by author 2004-11-16 10:44:52.
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11/16/2004 10:46:14 AM · #3 |
| Or possibly set to a very small resolution. |
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11/16/2004 10:46:15 AM · #4 |
assuming you had the camera in AUTO mode - it would choose the ISO for you based on the light, to try to keep the shutter speed as fast as possible. the higher the ISO the more grain/noise will be in the photo. with your camera i have heard the noise is excessive at the higher ISO settings.
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11/16/2004 10:46:31 AM · #5 |
| That grainy look is just because I had to make the picture so much smaller for this site. it wasnt that grainy...It was just blurry. For some reason its not coming across very good. hmmm. Im not sure why. |
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11/16/2004 10:47:03 AM · #6 |
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11/16/2004 10:50:12 AM · #7 |
here is another...
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11/16/2004 10:50:50 AM · #8 |
| That's from low light with no flash. |
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11/16/2004 10:52:00 AM · #9 |
| Now come on!! I've caught moving trains in auto mode with my sony before! But I cant catch a kid eating birthday cake!! Whats that all about? |
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11/16/2004 10:52:28 AM · #10 |
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11/16/2004 10:55:46 AM · #11 |
Smoon;
I have problems to with pistures coming out funky, particularly in low light. I did learn to avoid setting the ISO to auto, and in fact generally only use the manual settings on the camera. If you leave the ISO as low as you can stand, and pay attention to the on creen histogram, it will get rid of the majority of the noise problems.
As far as blurry, while I haven't had problems with that that I could blame on the 828, dpdave has caused it a few times. Especially those low light beer drinking shots.;o}
Edit; I just saw the bigger picture, and I have to agree, low light+no flash=slow shutter. Did it take a garden hose to clean that poor kid up?
Good luck;
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11/16/2004 11:03:31 AM · #12 |
Just about!!! He definatly had to be soaked in the bath a while!!!
Thanks alot guys! I just realized I had turned my flash off because I had been doing alot with my Sepia settings in a very well lit area...then when I picked my camera up last night to snap these shots...I just forgot to turn my flash back on! Yes Im a boneheaded woman! But It does all make sense what ya'll are saying!!! And I thank you for setting me straght!! |
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11/16/2004 11:48:46 AM · #13 |
| The high noise in the F828 is one of my biggest complaints about it. I hardly ever use anything above a 64 because of it. That, of course, limits the photo opps considerably. |
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11/16/2004 04:36:55 PM · #14 |
| That's the biggest problem I have as well. I can usually get away with 100 tho'. I wonder if Sony will offer any kind of a fix for it? |
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11/16/2004 04:40:21 PM · #15 |
the last pic is a bit creepy with all the blur! lol
the blur is definetly from low light and no flash...it's gonna happen with digital unless your subject doesn't move at all. And well, a wee boy at a birthday party getting fed cake is probably moving around quite a bit! :-)
If it was in auto, wouldn't the flash automatically fire due to the lowlight? It should anyway.
Edit: I just read your post again, you said AUTO FOCUS..now I get it. I'm assuming the cam was set on Manual, though. Definetly looks like too high an ISO and no flash to freeze the movement. Grain and Blur. Getcha every time!
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11/16/2004 04:47:58 PM · #16 |
I have a Sony MVCD400. I switched off the internal flash and used a non sony flash and got this very weird effect. You could see the blur in the electronic viewfinder. It was strange. Were you using an external flash? It does not appear so.
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11/16/2004 05:41:36 PM · #17 |
If you want to use a flash, but avoid the annoying harshness that comes with it, try blocking it with some tissue paper or, even better, use an external flash and bounce it off the ceiling or walls. That's what I did at my nephew's 1st birthday...
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11/16/2004 05:51:07 PM · #18 |
It looks to me as if you had your camera on full auto. With a low light situation I believe it set your shutter speed low and set your ISO high. The second picture tells me your shutter was somewhere around 1sec or so. I believe flash would of helped. Just my opinion.
Can you pull the info from your second picture and let us what your setting were?
Message edited by author 2004-11-16 17:52:28.
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11/17/2004 01:48:51 PM · #19 |
Hmmm...Im not sure how to do that... Can you tell me how to?
bledford!! what a cute babyface!!! Im just mad at myself for screwing up my son's birthday pics!!! At least we had the camcorder going too! |
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11/17/2004 03:33:26 PM · #20 |
In low light the shutter needs to stay open longer to get enough light in and the aperture will be lower. In auto mode your camera measures the light and adjusts the ISO, shutter speed, and aperture accordingly. When you turn the flash on, the camera compensates, expecting the flash so it would measure the light available then bump up the shutter speed and the aperture. Thus, low light + no flash = blurry photo because of slow shutter and low aperture.
If you can adjust your flash level, turn it way down, but leave it on and you should get much better results.
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