How to get best pic with S602 @ night?

[Saa]

Hi buddies,

May I know what is the best setting to shoot with low light. I want to shoot at night. Most pictures I shot at night is blurred. I try with both manual and auto.
Day shots are fine and perfect. Thanks in advance.
VeVe

 

[KC63881]

If you're not using flash, mount the camera on a tripod and use the 2s timer to minimise camera shake when you press the shutter.

Hi buddies,
May I know what is the best setting to shoot with low light. I want
to shoot at night. Most pictures I shot at night is blurred. I try
with both manual and auto.
Day shots are fine and perfect. Thanks in advance.
VeVe

 

[chris gunn]

Hi buddies,
May I know what is the best setting to shoot with low light. I want
to shoot at night. Most pictures I shot at night is blurred. I try
with both manual and auto.

You've got options. I think someone said deselecting the IR autofocus
improved night autofocus?

There is shutter priority to take a faster pic if you're shaking it (as opposed
to the tripod idea).

There is aperture priority to use a smaller (bigger number) aperture to
get a bigger depth of field, if focus is your problem.

To feel even better about your focus you could use a flashlight and the
manual focus - focus assist button.

To improve the dynamic range you could use the AE bracketing feature
and stack the 3 pics (or the two extremes?).

To reduce the noise level on still pics, you could take several pics
(will require tripod) and stack them. There is a prog called 'imagestacker'?

Should be something here for everyone!

--
cheers!

Gunn

 

[tonyb92510]

Hi buddies,
May I know what is the best setting to shoot with low light. I want
to shoot at night. Most pictures I shot at night is blurred. I try
with both manual and auto.
Day shots are fine and perfect. Thanks in advance.
VeVe

See

http://aquace21.1accesshost.com/1608/

There Hector (aka "antena") has posted some excellent night shots, and the EXIF data may be helpful to you.

Tony

 

[Nick Wienholt]

If you're not using flash, mount the camera on a tripod and use the
2s timer to minimise camera shake when you press the shutter.

Low-light 602 shots taken with timer and tripod - http://www.pbase.com/goyousharks/20020812

I was pretty pleased with the result. I tried the night before without a tripod, and with anything slower than a 1/25s expourse, the sharpness wasn't there.

Nick Wienholt
http://www.pbase.com/goyousharks

 

[264]

Nice shots!!! What happened to the noise? Did you do any post processing?

If you're not using flash, mount the camera on a tripod and use the
2s timer to minimise camera shake when you press the shutter.

Low-light 602 shots taken with timer and tripod -
http://www.pbase.com/goyousharks/20020812

I was pretty pleased with the result. I tried the night before
without a tripod, and with anything slower than a 1/25s expourse,
the sharpness wasn't there.

Nick Wienholt
http://www.pbase.com/goyousharks

 

[Nick Wienholt]

Nice shots!!!

Many thanks.

What happened to the noise? Did you do any post
processing?

Didn't touch anything - the images are exactly how they came out of the camera. I have played around with Corel PhotoPaint with some of the photos, but I only ever end up making the shots look really unnatural. That's more a reflection I my lack of skill, rather than PhotoPaint.

The only photos I find unsatisfying in their raw state are the surfers. The surfer at the bottom of the huge wave ( http://www.pbase.com/image/3864733 ) from last week was taken at the right moment, but, to me, it just doesn't look as good as it could. I'm still playing around trying to get this one better.

Nick Wienholt
http://www.pbase.com/goyousharks

 

[E'Mahn]

To improve the dynamic range you could use the AE bracketing feature
and stack the 3 pics (or the two extremes?).

To reduce the noise level on still pics, you could take several pics
(will require tripod) and stack them. There is a prog called
'imagestacker'?

Chris, do you know if there is there a difference in quality between simply using multiple layers in Photoshop each with reduced opacity over using the image stacker program? I have seen some very nice stacked night images using the Photoshop layer technique and I'd rather use this as my central sotware unless there is significant improvement with a separate program.

Thanks.

-E

 

[kp2]

Hi Everyone,

Has anyone tried to take portrait pictures (of kids usually in motion :- ) under "low" light condition WITHOUT tripod and timer ? These conditions are most likely common to all of us , I guess for occasional use .

I have taken several pictures under these conditions w/ AUTOFOCUS, WITHOUT FLASH noticing that the toom has fairly good lighting condition (and the S602 is battery power hungry !) and so most of them are rather blurry.

Thanks,
KP2

Hi buddies,
May I know what is the best setting to shoot with low light. I want
to shoot at night. Most pictures I shot at night is blurred. I try
with both manual and auto.
Day shots are fine and perfect. Thanks in advance.
VeVe

See

http://aquace21.1accesshost.com/1608/

There Hector (aka "antena") has posted some excellent night shots,
and the EXIF data may be helpful to you.

Tony

 

[chris gunn]

To improve the dynamic range you could use the AE bracketing feature
and stack the 3 pics (or the two extremes?).

To reduce the noise level on still pics, you could take several pics
(will require tripod) and stack them. There is a prog called
'imagestacker'?

Chris, do you know if there is there a difference in quality
between simply using multiple layers in Photoshop each with reduced
opacity over using the image stacker program? I have seen some
very nice stacked night images using the Photoshop layer technique
and I'd rather use this as my central sotware unless there is
significant improvement with a separate program.

Although I have downloaded both these progs, I have not actually done
this yet. I wouldn't be surprised if there was no difference in quality,
perhaps just convenience.

I think I'll wander over to that other forum 'pc tools' and see what
they say.

--
cheers!

Gunn

 

[Richard Dunn]

If you're not using flash, mount the camera on a tripod and use the
2s timer to minimise camera shake when you press the shutter.

Low-light 602 shots taken with timer and tripod -
http://www.pbase.com/goyousharks/20020812

I was pretty pleased with the result. I tried the night before
without a tripod, and with anything slower than a 1/25s expourse,
the sharpness wasn't there.

Nick Wienholt
http://www.pbase.com/goyousharks

Nick I agree a tripod and timer are the best combination but a wall is useful if a tripod is absent. Some of these pics are with an F601 and one is from a S602.









--
Best Wishes,
Richard Dunn
Warwick UK
http://www.pbase.com/rmwd/galleries

 

[robbiefpi]

At http://www.pbase.com/robbief/first_experience_with_fuji_s602z&page=2
there are some of my first night shots

I used a little tripod and manual exposure times 2", 4", ", 8" ecc.

Please all of you comment the quality and where I did mistakes! I think that some pics are not good for sharpening and light haloes.

thanks
Rob

 

[Richard Dunn]

If you're not using flash, mount the camera on a tripod and use the
2s timer to minimise camera shake when you press the shutter.

Low-light 602 shots taken with timer and tripod -
http://www.pbase.com/goyousharks/20020812

I was pretty pleased with the result. I tried the night before
without a tripod, and with anything slower than a 1/25s expourse,
the sharpness wasn't there.

Nick Wienholt
http://www.pbase.com/goyousharks

Nick I agree a tripod and timer are the best combination but a wall
is useful if a tripod is absent. Some of these pics are with an
F601 and one is from a S602.

--
Best Wishes,
Richard Dunn
Warwick UK
http://www.pbase.com/rmwd/galleries

--
Best Wishes,
Richard Dunn
Warwick UK
http://www.pbase.com/rmwd/galleries

 

[Richard Bolt]

Here's my first night shots

This were some of the first shots taken with the camera so forgive me for the quality.

The moon shot was taken at ISO400 if I remember - the black level is great (compare it to the background), with no visible noise

The shot of the trees was taken in complete darkness.

With the naked eye, only the tops of the trees were visible due to a street light about 400-500m away in th upper right corner, behind the trees. The shot was taken at ISO1600 over 15 secs.

While there is quite a lot of noise, I was amazed that the photo came out at all. It was so dark that the EVF showed a black image with a tiny white pin prick for the street light. There is some slight blurring due to a brreze and the long shutter delay

http://www.pbase.com/image/4124380/original
http://www.pbase.com/image/4124383/original

 

[RJNedimyer]

Hi Everyone,

Has anyone tried to take portrait pictures (of kids usually in
motion :- ) under "low" light condition WITHOUT tripod and timer ?
These conditions are most likely common to all of us , I guess for
occasional use .

Starters:
1. Any low light shot is more difficult than a normal or birght light shot.
2. kids are the worst since they go in any direction at any time and at a
wide variation of speeds.
3. A tripod and a timer are nearly or totally worthless with kids.
4. First increase the ISO {It's still ASA to me} to 400, 800 or 1600
depending on conditions.
5. Second pan with the action [see links].
6. Take a lot of extra shots [with kids many will be duds].
7. Practice panning as often as you can even if you don't take a shot.
8. Make sure you do not add motion blurrs your self learn and practice
shooting techniques.
9. Use manual focus!!!!
10. Use manual shutter speeds and lens opening.
11. Flash is better and External flash is best.

I have taken several pictures under these conditions w/ AUTOFOCUS,
WITHOUT FLASH noticing that the toom has fairly good lighting
condition (and the S602 is battery power hungry !) and so most of
them are rather blurry.

Thanks,
KP2

Hi buddies,
May I know what is the best setting to shoot with low light. I want
to shoot at night. Most pictures I shot at night is blurred. I try
with both manual and auto.
Day shots are fine and perfect. Thanks in advance.
VeVe

See

http://aquace21.1accesshost.com/1608/

There Hector (aka "antena") has posted some excellent night shots,
and the EXIF data may be helpful to you.

Tony

Try following these links and their suggestions regardless of camera or type of camera you are using; thenvary and adapt from there.

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1012&message=3229721

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1012&message=3103362

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1012&message=3198484

An Additional interesting comment:

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1012&message=3159665

Happy shooting
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Ray
RJNedimyer