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David In Indy:
Hi Kerry!
The auto settings on your camera are variable. They change every time you take a picture. Adjusting your camera in the manual or program mode will not have any effect on the auto mode whatsoever. You may want to check your owners manual to be sure, but I've never seen or heard of a camera where this would be a problem.
And if you are worried about things like exposure compensation or white balance, just set them back to zero (or on some cameras, exposure compensation and white balance have an auto setting). But when you shoot pictures with your camera in auto mode, there is no fixed aperture and shutter speed settings, since the camera must change those settings based on the lighting conditions.
Kerry:
--- Quote from: David on January 10, 2008, 12:28:13 am ---Hi Kerry!
The auto settings on your camera are variable. They change every time you take a picture. Adjusting your camera in the manual or program mode will not have any effect on the auto mode whatsoever. You may want to check your owners manual to be sure, but I've never seen or heard of a camera where this would be a problem.
And if you are worried about things like exposure compensation or white balance, just set them back to zero (or on some cameras, exposure compensation and white balance have an auto setting). But when you shoot pictures with your camera in auto mode, there is no fixed aperture and shutter speed settings, since the camera must change those settings based on the lighting conditions.
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Thanx David, you're a gem! I feel empowered with all this knowledge! :D
underdown:
--- Quote from: Kerry on January 10, 2008, 12:38:52 am ---Thanx David, you're a gem! I feel empowered with all this knowledge! :D
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Well, my thanx too, David. I'd feel empowered, also, except that I'm hopeless with instructions, and manuals, and, and ... 'white balance' ? ???
Like you, Kerry, I leave my camera on Auto. The only time I play around with it is for Macro, Video, Flash (sometimes), and Self Timer. Otherwise it's 'point and shoot'. Unfortunately, I don't have stabilisation (it's an older FinePix S5000).
The main problems I have are ... portraits in poor or artificial light without flash tend to leave the subject (when zoomed on screen) looking rather leprous, with dark spots and small lumps all over. ... the camera sometimes sets itself (or is accidentally set) to low res (1M). When I take pics on high res (6M) the photo file on sreen usually drops to around one and a half Mb.
I assume that's because it is what the computer screen can handle, but I'm not sure. When I edit and post to Photobucket, at the size suitable for BM posts, they are smaller in file size anyway, so I guess it doesn't matter (?).
I had a look for pics of Sydney to post, but found that I have very few of those. Maybe it would be an idea to get out and about with a bottle of something (does that help, Kerry?) and start snapping. Perhaps, Kerry, we could split the brief? I can take pics of things other than clouds, sunbeams and such-like. I'm rather fond of beaches, animals and people, but could include some architecture, maybe.
Below is a pic taken near Melbourne. (I'm off to Melbourne in a couple of weeks for the long weekend ... that has some good architecture etc.).
It is yet another 'sunbeams and clouds', but is one of my favourites, so just thought I'd drop it in.
underdown:
Another near Melbourne. Gum trees in the Dandenong Ranges. And another favourite.
underdown:
Rododenrons, also in the Dandenongs.
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