Tips on how to use a good camera.?

Question

I've had a Sony F828 digital camera (8mp) for almost 2 years, but I haven't a clue when it comes to all the manual settings on it. I tend to use the automatic mode. There's speed priority, apperture, and loads of other modes.

Is iso 64 only to be used during the day, or can I use it during the night, what's the main difference between say iso 64 and iso 800.

Any tips welcome, and any good sites where I can do some reading up would be great. Thanks :)

Answer 1

I can give you some advice here, but your best bet is to grab a book at the library or book store about photography to better understand the camera. Also the user manual usually has some good info.

Speed priorty:
you tell the camera what shutter speed you want to shoot at, and the camera automatically adjust the apperture take a photo.

apperture priority
you set the apperture, and the camera sets the rest

Manual
You set the apperture and shutter speed for the photo.

ISO
this is how sensitive the photo is to light. The lower it is the more light is needed for a photo, but the better quality photo. The higher it is the less light is needed, but some quality is lost.

Now the trick is how to use this all to make a good photo. You would use shutter priority when you have what to create a specif effect with your camera that requires a certain speed. Lets say you want to freeze the action in a basketball game (shutter: 300), or you want to capture the blur of motion when a quaterback passes (shutter: 100). You set you shutter and the camera makes the app ajustements to make sure the correct amout of light enters the camera.

There are other affects you might want to create using the f-stop (appt). For instance, if you want to make sure the clouds in the sky are clearly visable you should shoot with a f-stop around f-16. If you want to blur out the background so only the subject is in focus you should shoot around 2.8-5.6.

Hope that helps some, its all about trying new things.

Answer 2

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