Anyone have a Digital Camera?

blade · Post by **blade** » Fri Jan 04, 2002 9:18 am

If so then have the flash set to auto, turn out all the lights and take a pic. You'll be amazed! Seems the Fuji digi cams from 1200 on up will take an excellent pic in total darkness! I have no clue why Fuji never mentions this as a selling point. But maybe they don't know.

Discovered it by accident with my 1300 and then with my 2300. Amazin' I tell ya.

Or if you have no Fuji try it with your camera and see if that will work.

FuNPoLiCe001 · Post by **FuNPoLiCe001** » Fri Jan 04, 2002 1:12 pm

yep, i have a fuji mx-4700 and its pretty cool

thing is, i have a nightmode, which is supposed to lengthen the time of exposure, but it just seems to make the picture fuzzier...guess i'll have to play around with it a bit more

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Fri Jan 04, 2002 1:40 pm

hmmm...taking pictures in the dark

didn't think anyone was using that trick anmore

RubberDuckie · Post by **RubberDuckie** » Fri Jan 04, 2002 4:52 pm

I had an Olympus 1.3 MegaPix that took excellent pictures in "LOW" light and Im sure it would have performed very well in the dark

Now I have a sony 3.3MegaPix with video that cost 4x as much as the Olympus...you would think the pics would be better, but the sony sux in low light IMHO. The Sonys pics in day light and bright indoors are the best I could imagine, but low light is bad. I would say its cause the flash is too small.
But I found in low light ... dont use a flash with a digital camera (be sure to be still and not photograph action scenes this way) and the digital camera atuo-adjusts the exposure and gama to create a good picture without a flash.

hmmmm....I babbled on and on....must be bored at work

poop · Post by **poop** » Fri Jan 04, 2002 4:53 pm

My camera (low-end sony) has a night mode, too. It is for outside, a flash is fine for inside.

The pictures are extremely fuzzy in night mode if I take them by hand. BUT, if I have a stable platform to put the camera on, night photos (of still objects) are awesome.

Insane Morphius · Post by **Insane Morphius** » Fri Jan 04, 2002 9:45 pm

My Minolta DiMage 7 takes superb shots in low light situations, with the flash on or off.

Hey all, hope you had a super holiday

Morphius

chottoED · Post by **chottoED** » Fri Jan 04, 2002 10:06 pm

just received my new baby...
FinePix 2800... (drool)...
2MP w/ 6X opt. zoom.... lcd electronic viewfinder...
able to record 30sec voice captions and record 60sec video cliops w/ sound...
the shutter speed's extremely fast...
took a couple of quick shots... very impressed w/ the fairly fast autofocus and light adjustments...
no longer need to use the large lcd cuz i can do everything from the viewfinder...

Schwartz · Post by **Schwartz** » Sat Jan 05, 2002 1:26 am

My camera (Nikon 990) took good pictures with the flash but after seeing the difference an external flash made I had to have one. I added a Nikon SB-22s external flash and it works great. It also rotates so I can bounce the flash off the celing and get great pictures that way too. I don't think I'd buy another camera that can't use an external flash.

blade · Post by **blade** » Sat Jan 05, 2002 1:44 am

Ed, test it and see. Turn out all the lights and take a pic normally. Hold the shutter halfway down then all the way in whatever room you are in. Everything should be bright and even focused. With even zero light, that is amazin'. Sounds like a real nice camera. Looks like most others have a real nice one too.

Yo Insane!!!! Welcome back from Europe amigo.

:+

d_b · Post by **d_b** » Sat Jan 05, 2002 7:46 am

Mine takes great pictures in the dark, provided the flash powder isn't damp.

Danielm7 · Post by **Danielm7** » Sat Jan 05, 2002 10:24 am

I have a olympus too, I've done that a bunch of times it is really cool. The other day I was bored and took pics of the back end of my ms optical mouse without flash it was really wild looking. Had the stupid ass provider of web space I have fixed things I'd be able to post a pic but no such luck I'm afraid.

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Sat Jan 05, 2002 7:39 pm

My Ricoh does it too

. I'd never tryed that before until ol' Blade mentioned the idea but I finally motivated, walked into the next room in total darkness and shot, looks like it was taken during normal room lighting too

sheerdark · Post by **sheerdark** » Mon Jan 07, 2002 2:37 am

Yepp....my Sony MVC-CD200 does exactly the same thing....excellent quality in total darkness. Found this out the other night when I accidentaly hit the button while cleaning the lense with a lense cleaning cloth with only the tv on in my bedroom. Perty kewl, very nice cam....if anyone is in the market and has the money for one...I highly recommend it. Writing to cd's is really cool.

Basterb · Post by **Basterb** » Mon Jan 07, 2002 10:28 am

I've got a Olympus C3000 3.3 Mega Pixel Camera is awsome!!! takes pics at night with jsut the built in flash very good!!!. however they can be a little blured so i will often set the manaul focus to the distance that i am taking!!! OLYMPUS RULES sharpest pictures i have ever seen on a digital camera!