New Camera Help

[madhttr]

Hi! I just bought a new camera (Canon sd630) and we are going to DL in a few weeks and I was wondering if anyone can tell me a few things...

1. For the fireworks, I know it has a fireworks setting but seems like you have to have a tripod for this one because of the shutter time. Is there any way to take decent fireworks pictures without using this setting?

2. What about nighttime pictures? Obviously for pictures of the castle for instance I dont want to use a flash. Without one will I get a pretty good picture?

I had a kodak dx7590 and have had alot of trouble learning how to use that camera. I wanted a canon rebel but chose the kodak because of the ease of using it. I have rarely been able to take a picture with it without it being blury or hard to focus because of low light.

I noticed that just in the 2 hours since I brought this camera home, The pictures I have take have been much better, only 1 was blury because my husband had moved it in the middle of taking the picture and in low light, it looks great! So I am very pleased with the purchase, but I want to make sure that I can take the best pictures on our vacation because I dont know when we will be able to go back again.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Groucho]

Hi! I just bought a new camera (Canon sd630) and we are going to DL in a few weeks and I was wondering if anyone can tell me a few things...

1. For the fireworks, I know it has a fireworks setting but seems like you have to have a tripod for this one because of the shutter time. Is there any way to take decent fireworks pictures without using this setting?

You can try handheld but you'll get much better results with a tripod, or any method of holding the camera steady (resting on something solid, etc.)

2. What about nighttime pictures? Obviously for pictures of the castle for instance I dont want to use a flash. Without one will I get a pretty good picture?

Already you're doing better than probably most people who go to Disney, who leave the flash on for nighttime Castle photos. The castle is fairly bright at night so you'll probably be OK doing handheld photos with the flash off, as long as you stay as steady as possible.

You will probably want to invest in at least a tiny travel tripod - with a camera that light, even the little $10 ones that fold up to almost nothing are fine, you'll just need to find a trashcan or something to rest it on. The difference in photo quality will easily be worth it.

 

[madhttr]

Thanks Groucho! I'll definately look into a tripod

 

[seashoreCM]

Some nighttime subjects actually need less than the usual automatic exposure to come out right. Examples include scenes with lots of tiny lights such as the Osborne lights and Main St. USA. You would have to experiment using the Exposure Compensation feature. Start out with minus two. Don't forget to set Exposure Compensation back to zero for the next day's shooting.

A night scene should look like night, not twilight or daylight that a camera's normal automatic exposure tries to make.

Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/disney.htm