Nice Camera

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Margies3

That looks identical to the camera bag I ended up getting. It was $49.00.
I had already bought their package deal which included a $39 bag and a 1G memory card for $59, so when I returned the first bag, I just added an extra $10 and got the bigger bag. The memory card on it's own was $29, so I guess I saved a few pennies. Nothing to write home about.

I'd love to see your pic of the moving car. I think I'm going to go out this afternoon and try doing that. Or maybe while the kids are playing baseball or Keith is riding his electric scooter. This is going to be so much fun!!!

Try this, put the AF on continuous focus mode, turn the dial to the setting for taking pics of moving objects. Point, push the button partway down to start the focus on the moving object and then push all the way down and hold it while following the moving object in the view finder, it will keep taking pics as you hold it down, really cool

[Margies3]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Try this, put the AF on continuous focus mode, turn the dial to the setting for taking pics of moving objects. Point, push the button partway down to start the focus on the moving object and then push all the way down and hold it while following the moving object in the view finder, it will keep taking pics as you hold it down, really cool

Cool!! It's after dark right now and I live on a quiet street. But tomorrow that is going to be on my list of things to do! Seriously!!

I used the camera today and played with it a bit while taking pictures of my nieces for them to give to their dad for Father's Day. I wanted to see what kinds of differences I got using AUTO mode or Portrait Mode. I did get some nice pictures. I'm thinking I'm gonna love this new toy!

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Margies3

Cool!! It's after dark right now and I live on a quiet street. But tomorrow that is going to be on my list of things to do! Seriously!!

I used the camera today and played with it a bit while taking pictures of my nieces for them to give to their dad for Father's Day. I wanted to see what kinds of differences I got using AUTO mode or Portrait Mode. I did get some nice pictures. I'm thinking I'm gonna love this new toy!

lol. Do you have a tripod?

[Margies3]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

lol. Do you have a tripod?

Sorry it has taken so long to get back to ya, Prax. I lost this when they moved it. Duh! goofy me!!

so, no, I don't have a tripod. I did try doing this with my son on his electric scooter. It worked really well. Lots of fun!!

Did you know that you can set the camera to take black and white as well as sepia colored picutres, plus the normal ranges in color photos. I used this yesterday when I took pictures for a girl for her portfolio. They turned out really nice!!

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Margies3

Sorry it has taken so long to get back to ya, Prax. I lost this when they moved it. Duh! goofy me!!

so, no, I don't have a tripod. I did try doing this with my son on his electric scooter. It worked really well. Lots of fun!!

Did you know that you can set the camera to take black and white as well as sepia colored picutres, plus the normal ranges in color photos. I used this yesterday when I took pictures for a girl for her portfolio. They turned out really nice!!

Yes, my old Sony did that too, but usually if I wanted to do that I would just use PaintShop Pro

BTW I fixed another issue. All my pics with the zoom lense were coming out blurred. As it is, with the zoom lense one small movement would mess it up.

Well I was reading through trouble shooting and there is this setting for priority release C and S...they should both be off. One was on and this caused the picture to be taken out of focus when it is in auto focus mode

[Praxeas]

Sooooo...hows the camera?

I took some pics today of a brother at a Christian Hip-Hop concert. They did it in front of a huge window that let in a lot of light. It's hard to take pics like that because the backlight makes the subject all shadow. I took some pictures in Program mode which does not use the flash. The flash often messes up pictures when there is already some light and you are far away.

I wanted to use action mode because he was moving a lot, so what I did was changed the white balance to focus on the subject more and no flash...came out pretty good
These are 15% compression and resized to a smaller size. The dark one was taken without zoom, you can tell the difference as it's harder for the automatic white balance to work..the others are action shots where I just held the butten down and took several shots...I have more but too many to post

[Praxeas]

This was a macro shot I did when I first got it

[Praxeas]

I did a wedding but some of the shots did not come out the way I wanted. The way our church building is made there are a lot of shadows and the lighting is uneven...makes it hard to go from one area to another and have to adjust the camera real fast. I want to get an external flash, I think that might help a lot. Often when I take a shot with the flash on the subjects look ok but the background has shadows I don't want or the color is off

[Margies3]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Yes, my old Sony did that too, but usually if I wanted to do that I would just use PaintShop Pro

BTW I fixed another issue. All my pics with the zoom lense were coming out blurred. As it is, with the zoom lense one small movement would mess it up.

Well I was reading through trouble shooting and there is this setting for priority release C and S...they should both be off. One was on and this caused the picture to be taken out of focus when it is in auto focus mode

Can you give me more information on this? What page on the manual were you reading? I'm having that problem. Whenever I try to use the zoom lense, about 1/2 of the time they end up blurry.

[Margies3]

***BIMP*** for Prax - I'm desperate, brother!! VBS starts tonight and I need to be able to do photo slide shows to show the next day at VBS, starting with tonights! Help me, please!