Best Shot Selection

When I decided on my purchase, there was much mention about the BSS feature of the 950, 800 and 700.

The funny thing is I have never come across anybody posting anything about it or used this feature in their photos, lest seen any photos that mentioned BSS was used.

Am I the only one using it? I found it most helpful when taking handheld pictures in low light conditions where I didn't want to use flash.

...jason

I ALWAYS use it. (which means about 92.5% of the time). The only time I don't is when I'm in automatic mode for a quick pic needing flash, etc.... to save batteries... or to get a faster response time when working with a fast action subject with a high quality setting... or intentionally using 'continuous' shooting.

I think it's a great feature. You're right, I don't hear too much about it.

jeff

Jason Chue said:

When I decided on my purchase, there was much mention about the BSS
feature of the 950, 800 and 700.

The funny thing is I have never come across anybody posting anything
about it or used this feature in their photos, lest seen any photos that
mentioned BSS was used.

Am I the only one using it? I found it most helpful when taking handheld
pictures in low light conditions where I didn't want to use flash.

...jason

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I have used this feature in action shots in a marine trip last week, took great photos from swimming dolphins, just have to set the resolution to XGA normal in order to take rather quick photos.

jefferson W. said:

I think it's a great feature. You're right, I don't hear too much about it.

jeff

Jason Chue said:

When I decided on my purchase, there was much mention about the BSS
feature of the 950, 800 and 700.

The funny thing is I have never come across anybody posting anything
about it or used this feature in their photos, lest seen any photos that
mentioned BSS was used.

Am I the only one using it? I found it most helpful when taking handheld
pictures in low light conditions where I didn't want to use flash.

...jason

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Umm, Jeff is that statistic real or what ??

Glad to know somebody else uses it. The thing about using it in low light situations is the object has to be still and not moving. Else...

...jason

jefferson W. said:

I think it's a great feature. You're right, I don't hear too much about it.

jeff

Jason Chue said:

When I decided on my purchase, there was much mention about the BSS
feature of the 950, 800 and 700.

The funny thing is I have never come across anybody posting anything
about it or used this feature in their photos, lest seen any photos that
mentioned BSS was used.

Am I the only one using it? I found it most helpful when taking handheld
pictures in low light conditions where I didn't want to use flash.

...jason

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Jason Chue said:

When I decided on my purchase, there was much mention about the BSS
feature of the 950, 800 and 700.

The funny thing is I have never come across anybody posting anything
about it or used this feature in their photos, lest seen any photos that
mentioned BSS was used.

Am I the only one using it? I found it most helpful when taking handheld
pictures in low light conditions where I didn't want to use flash.

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Damn. I had forgotten this feature. But after reading this post I decided to do some testing, and the results were a nice surprise: you can really get perfectly sharp handheld pictures with shutter speeds as low as 1/4 s. There were a couple of low light, hand held pictures I have taken that came out shaky, and would have immensely benefited from the use of BSS. Bet I'll never forget about this feature again...

Why not use continuous in this situation?
David

Manuel said:

jefferson W. said:

I think it's a great feature. You're right, I don't hear too much about it.

jeff

Jason Chue said:

When I decided on my purchase, there was much mention about the BSS
feature of the 950, 800 and 700.

The funny thing is I have never come across anybody posting anything
about it or used this feature in their photos, lest seen any photos that
mentioned BSS was used.

Am I the only one using it? I found it most helpful when taking handheld
pictures in low light conditions where I didn't want to use flash.

...jason

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David said:

Manuel said:

I have used this feature in action shots in a marine trip last week, took
great photos from swimming dolphins, just have to set the resolution to
XGA normal in order to take rather quick photos.

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Two schools of fish on this idea. By leaving BSS on you only access it if you keep your finger on the button, otherwise, the first shot is saved. But if, as you point out, you are shooting smaller than full size, there may be value in shooting lots of exposures hoping for the one that isn't neccessarily the sharpest, but which has dynamics, composition, movement and vibrancy as its compelling quality.

Smaller shots shoot sequences faster than the full size full quality ones, too.

And howcome there are fish and mammals both named "dolphins"?

If you shoot a lot of BSS (there's no BS in BSS) you may find the occasional image that was made with a smear while you SAW a better sharper one on the viewfinder, you just know you did! Some shots with movement actually create lines out of detail thus generating edges the algorithm thinks are object contours. Maybe the 1000 will have BBSS (Better...).

-iNova

Rui Prior said:

Damn. I had forgotten this feature. But after reading this post I decided
to do some testing, and the results were a nice surprise: you can really
get perfectly sharp handheld pictures with shutter speeds as low as 1/4
s. There were a couple of low light, hand held pictures I have taken that
came out shaky, and would have immensely benefited from the use of BSS.
Bet I'll never forget about this feature again...

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Yup, I too had the opportunity to get handheld shots at shutter speeds as low as 1 s !!! Unbelievable but true. I believe that's definitely a very slight blur when you zoom in high but hey, in 1 sec lots of other things can happen

...jason