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HELP! I'm new in photography and have a Fuji FinePix S6000fd (Airline photography)

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Hi everyone,

My name is William, I just turned 25 yesterday and got myself a new camera. I live in Calgary Alberta in beautiful Canada and I am an airport operations manager at the Calgary International Airport.

I've been interested in aviation my entire life and with this newly come opportunity to work for the CAA, I can take pictures of airlines and various shots from the Calgary downtown and the rocky mountains in the background.

I was suggested the Fuji Finepix s6000fd because I've been told that it is a great camera and the sample pictures I saw were very impressive. I got some accessories with such as UV lenses and such and a 0.5X lens as well as a 2X lens. they were all bundled together so I do not know if they are of good quality or not, I bought the entire thing on eBay.

After owning the camera for a few days I am very disappointed because my shots look worse than those of my previous Panasonic Lumix FX03 camera. The images are not sharp whatsoever, they look very watermarked, grainy etc and I was tempted several times to get rid of it, so upset I was. I've had it for about 2 weeks now. My brother tells me I'm the one who doesn't know how to use it which results in my bad pictures... so I'm still holding on...

Ideally I want to be able to get some pictures posted on http://www.airliners.net but my pictures don't even come close to the quality of the pictures taken there...

Is there anyone who is willing to help me out and tell what I am doing wrong and how to take good pictures? Even the Auto mode delivers horrible results.

Any feedback would be tremendously appreciated!

Best regards,

William
 
Hey thanks that looks ahole lot better, so what am I doing wrong? Is it just all the post processing I am not doing??? I just thought the camera in itself would produce much better photos.

Thanks again,

william
 
Hi from downunder,

I feel your pain brother!!

I had a S6500fd [so called that in AUS] and frankly it was rubbish

Could not wait to give it back.Same results as use,=poor photos, the F20 i have would kill it, all in all a very disappointing effort buy Fuji Co.

Have a D40 Nikon which is brilliant but i dont feel i am ready for s DSLR and want to shoot photos without looking through the viewfinder, its on trial from Nikon-AUS and yeap she is going back too [BUT it does fantasic photos, its prob. what u should be buying]

Now thinking of getting a Kodak Z712is or a Panna FZ8, Panna has noise issues and have not seen a report/review on the Z712is yet, NOT that i take much notice with what others find, i try myself and if happy will keep it, otherwise they will go back too.

Easy to buy the F20, difficult to get a decent superzoom!

Cheers

,M
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'Everyday above earth is a gooooooooood day'
Mike Mad-Dog Adams
 
Really it does come down to post processing. I would recomend Photoshop Elements as a good program to start with. Shooting raw will help with sharpness and give you a lot more flexablity. S7RAW is a great freeware program you might want to download and try. Here is a link. http://www.photo-freeware.net/s7raw.php Rgrds, Kevin
JourneyBeyondWealth said:
Hey thanks that looks ahole lot better, so what am I doing wrong?
Is it just all the post processing I am not doing??? I just thought
the camera in itself would produce much better photos.

Thanks again,

william
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Why are you so set on trashing the S6000FD? Its a very good camera for the price and a great starter camera as I am finding out. To the OP, I also am very interested in aviation and would love to get a photo on a.net. What mode were you using to get these pics? If you were using an auto mode or a scene mode that will probably not be very good. I exclusively shoot in A, S, and M modes. They give you much more control. PP your shots will work greatly. I got some pretty good shots today at a small GA airport and that was my first try on aviation photography.

Keep trying and keep experimenting. It will take a while to get good.
 
Hey thanks for the reply I appreciate it. Well I was shooting mainly in S toying around with the shutter speed and at every different increment the result was still less than mediocre... But I hear there is a fine relation between aperture shutter speed and ISO... And I have no idea what it is. I know very little about Photoshop as well so I guess I have a learning curve to grasp.

If anyone is willing to help me a bit knowing I mainly want to shoot planes outdoors (figuratively speaking LOL) it would be so appreciated!

William
 
Its only MY findings, it might not be yours.

Love Fuji and its products, soon as they make a decent compact [enough guys with the 10.7 zoom, lets move on!] i will buy one.

If you shoot auto then the S6500fd is not for you, it needs to be tweaked and PP after photo, could not be bothered, other cameras can do the job straight out of the box

I am glad u enjoy yours, i tried everything to like it, just wasnt happening

Cheers

M
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'Everyday above earth is a gooooooooood day'
Mike Mad-Dog Adams
 
The basic rule for shooting is basically get as low of an ISO as you can while still maintaining a correct exposure and shutter speed/aperture to get the effect you want. If you didn't know ISO means the speed of the "film" or how quickly it reacts to light. Higher ISO = more light = more exposed but more noise. The lower the ISO the lower the noise which is a very very good thing.

A higher aperture blures the background or low depth of field while a lower one has a very high depth of field and sharp backgrounds. Although on non-DSLRs even a wide open aperture is a pretty big depth of field (F2.8 on this cam is about equiv to F11 in terms of DoF on a DSLR)

Shutter speed offers a lot of interesting things. A very fast shutter speed (1/500 or higher) will stop almost any action you can think of, but if there is little light you need to have a wide aperture to expose correctly and possibly increase the ISO to get the exposure. Slower shutter speeds allow more blurring which give a sense of motion. Another slow shutter speed shot used a lot for action is panning, where you use a slow shutter speed (maybe 1/30 or 1/15 or maybe even slower) and pan with your subject to match its speed. This makes the subject sharp but the background very streaky, implying lots and lots of motion.

There are millions of photography tutorials online. I have a lot of links in my bookmarks if you want to message me or email me. Just ask.
 
Ive owned a 6500 for a 5 days now and taken 75 shots, and honestly im not as happy as I thought I would be, and Ive read about how it chooses a high ISO so I stuck mainly to Portrait mode, and didnt particularly like it choosing ISO400 for indoor flash shots which looked ok generally except for peoples hair which looked more like a bird shat on their head than nice hair. Indoor shots at ISO800 werent too bad though, i agree its very useful for shots indoors combined with 28mm without a flash which is primarily why I got it and will keep it for this reason.

I then tried P mode and restricting ISO to 200 and 100, and even at ISO 200 I found birds feathers became somewhat noisy, as an outdoor zooming camera I think it sux without IS but I gathered this before I bought it, but its even worse than that because most pics appear to have some noise above ISO100 outdoors, I know a tripod would help though, Ill use my S2 for outdoor shake free low ISO pics. Perhaps its better than other compact cameras, its better than my others I own, but Im not real keen on the watercolor processing it does, or using the Flash with the high ISO it seems to choose.
 
powerslave said:
Ive owned a 6500 for a 5 days now and taken 75 shots, and honestly
im not as happy as I thought I would be.
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Thank God, i thought it was just me:-)

It needs to much work to get decent photos out of it, if i wanted to go to that trouble i would have got a DSLR

U need to return it and move on, the question is to what?

Kodak Z712is, Panna FZ8????Other?

Cheers

M

'Everyday above earth is a gooooooooood day'
Mike Mad-Dog Adams
 
I appreciate your kind offer and explanation.

Very nice and fair of you!

Cheers

M

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'Everyday above earth is a gooooooooood day'
Mike Mad-Dog Adams
 
I tok these a couple of years ago when I first got my S5500 and did not know what I was doing, considering that I think these came out very good.
JD







 
WOW those did come up good for a non pro... I wish I could get pics like these. I guess I'll just keep trying with my Fuji. I want to believe that it's a good camera and that with a little learning curve that I'll get good results with it. Do you guys mind if I post test shots here and there over the days and the pros and whoever wants to can guide me and tell me where I am going wrong.

Thanks guys, you're all real nice and it's great to be a new member here!

William
 
Sure, thats what this forum is for. I used to have some links to taking air show photos, I will have to look for them, inflight photos you generally use shutter priority and ground shots I like using aperture priority generally. Yes there is a learning curve to Fuji cameras, but once you do, you'll be very happy with the results, I sure have and have sold a few photos from my S5500.
JD
JourneyBeyondWealth said:
WOW those did come up good for a non pro... I wish I could get pics
like these. I guess I'll just keep trying with my Fuji. I want to
believe that it's a good camera and that with a little learning
curve that I'll get good results with it. Do you guys mind if I
post test shots here and there over the days and the pros and
whoever wants to can guide me and tell me where I am going wrong.

Thanks guys, you're all real nice and it's great to be a new member
here!

William
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