DIGITAL CAMARAS

[JoeBeck]

Originally Posted by Tamarack Studios

of the two cameras mentioned I'd buy the canon (even though I shoot Nikon). The canon can shoot at f2.8 vs. f4 for the olympus, which basically means as soon as the light is not that great it has to start bumping up the iso (film speed) which if bumped high enough will result in grainy photos.

- nic

That is the exact problem I have with my Olympus. Early sunrise and later sunset pictures, and any nighttime images around the fire are grainy.

[Nic D]

Originally Posted by JoeBeck

That is the exact problem I have with my Olympus. Early sunrise and later sunset pictures, and any nighttime images around the fire are grainy.

ok, here's a trick you can use to fool your camera to some degree.

my point and shoot (p&s) is the Canon SD500, kinda gettin long in the tooth... but there is a manual mode (M) that I can set the dial to. now with canon there is a menu and a function set button, use the function set button and scroll down to the iso and set it at 50 or the lowest setting you have.

now most p&s cameras have a several settings (or scenes) under which you can shoot. my camera gives me auto, manual, and scene. any time you are in auto, its just that, now when you go to manual, you have the lowest iso setting and therefor the cleanest photos possible. if its too dark, you will notice by the duration the shutter is open for (or how long it takes to actually take the photo)... if you get a blurry photo, try turning on the flash, if flash is not an option, you can either bump up your iso or just go to auto...

- nic