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Started by Boops Feb 2, 2004 at 5:49 AM 7 replies 350+ views

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Feb 2, 2004 at 5:49 AM

I''m using a digital camera: minolta dimage x20, but I seem to have a problem: if I want to take a picture inside but under rainy daylight and some tubelights, but without flash, then there appears a "shake warning" which means that if I move even slightly during the time I take the picture, the image is blurry. Try to press that button without moving the camera a bit! I never had this problem with a film camera, only with this digital one. I really want to take inside pictures without flash, like pictures during classes and such (nobody wants to see a flash there), but I don''t want them ending up all blurry. A tripod isn''t an option either (don''t have, and too conspicious). I''ve done a lot of experiments with inside pictures without flash now, and I''ve tried to hold my camera in several different ways so that I wouldn''t shake, but it always ends up blurry and moved. I also tried all different white balance and exposure settings, a very small exposure seems to help, but then it''s too dark. Does anyone know a solution to this?

Andrew Russell

Feb 2, 2004 at 6:21 AM

Small exposure plus the brightness or gamma tool when you get back to a computer.

There may be a 2-second-delay mode (my canon has this), or an external button attachment.

Resting it on something, probably in combonation with step two, may help.

Hold down the button until the exposure is finished. You get the most wobble when you take your finger off the button.

Depending on how inconspicous you want to get, you can get little 10-cm high tripods (although, they are usualy pretty wobbly, unless used with the two-second delay, or remote button thingo).

Boops

Feb 2, 2004 at 7:37 AM

Holding down the button until the exposure is finished actually helps a lot!

Thanks for the tip

Andrew Russell

Feb 2, 2004 at 7:51 AM

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Original post by Boops
Holding down the button until the exposure is finished actually helps a lot!

Thanks for the tip

No problem.

I found this out while mucking around taking long exposures of cars. The first half of the light from the headlights was great, the second half (once I let go of the button) was incredibly wobbly. This was despite the fact I was resting the camera on a flat railing.

Using the 2-second delay, and letting the camera sit on its own (not touching it) while it exposed, solved this problem completly.

I''ll upload the picture:

black_mage_s

Feb 2, 2004 at 7:54 AM

I love taking those kind of photos, but I found the less human interaction you have with the camera, the more clear the background of the image is. So things like tripods and auto shutters are your friends.

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[edited by - black_mage_s on February 2, 2004 8:55:56 AM]

Boops

Feb 2, 2004 at 8:13 AM

Cool picture

I''ve done some attempts at taking a literal screen shot, this is my best attempt, quite disappointing in my opinion

Also, do you see how everything becomes rounded? Those lines are straight in reality!

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Andrew Russell

Feb 2, 2004 at 8:31 AM

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Original post by black_mage_s
I love taking those kind of photos, but I found the less human interaction you have with the camera, the more clear the background of the image is. So things like tripods and auto shutters are your friends.

Indeed.

That was a fairly early photo. I only got in three photos, and all of them were dissappointing. The first, I had the exposure time set too fast, so I got little dashes where all the cars were (and a fairly grainy background, as you say, because of the low light), the second is the one you see here, and would have been ok, had the camera not bumped. The third, I had all the problems sorted, and it would have been a great picture, but after the delay timer - all the cars had gone

.

Perhaps I''ll go there again one evening, and try again.

Starboy

Feb 2, 2004 at 10:15 AM

I''m not familiar with that camera but if you have manual control over settings, try any or all of the following;

Increase aperture - this is the ''F'' number, - the smaller the F number, the better. (Smaller F number = Larger Aperture = more light coming in so lower shutter speed required = less camera shake)

Increase ISO. ISO is the light sensitivity, so the higher this is the less time you''ll need to expose your film (or CCD?) to light for the image to be taken. Usual ranges are 100, 200, 400, 800 etc..

And the obvious one, go for a high shutter speed.

Boops

Feb 2, 2004 at 10:30 AM

Hmm, it''s getting better, this is with ISO 400:

(too bad I can''t set the shutter speed manually!)

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