Well, there have been some writing about issues when getting blurry pictures and problems with Digital Cameras, so maby it?s time for a separate thread.
Digital cameras for just 20$ can take very nice pictures if you just use a good technique, there is some "traps" that most people falls into when taking pictures resulting in blurry and unsharp pictures.
My first advice is:
Use the
macro mode (Flower symbol), this mode will let you get close to your object, try avoiding using the flash since it will "burn" a white hole in your pictures causing all the details to dissapear. Use sunlight or indirect light from a lamp or such to highlight your object.
When its time to take a picture, no matter if your in macro or standard mode, squeeze the trigger button to half of its position, making your camera to chirp, beep or otherwise indicating that the zoom have caught a spot, if picture is unclear at your preferred target, let go of the trigger and redo, until everything looks ok, push the trigger until it produces the final picture.
This procedure will shorten the time for a picture to get taken and will immediate give you the picture you want, slamming the trigger directly to the final position will cause movement of the whole camera, making it difficult to find a spot to focus at giving a lag of up to a couple of seconds until actual photo is taken.
Also by using standard
batteries in a camera, the mAH (current) is lower then on rechargeable batteries, causing lag in the camera system if the flash suddenly bursts off leaving much lower power for the camera and having problem writing to the memory card and can actually cause a corrupt file system on the memorycard and you actually can loose all of your pictures.
Try to use "onetime" batteries only as an emergency backup, otherwise use the rechargeable ones.
The memory card, it is a quite sensetive part of the camera, the speed of the camera to written the picture to the card is reducing the time for your camera to get ready for another picture.
Use the menu in the camera to reformat the card as often as possible when you have downloaded the pictures to your computer, this will keep the file system on the card "fresh" and will reduce the chance of corruption or data loss.
If a memory card gets corrupted, try to place it into a card reader and use tools from your computer such as scandisk or other similar tools. If a card becomes corrupted, the chance is quite big that you will experience some serious data loss in the near future if there is broken sectors, better to replace the card then risking to loose all of your precious memories .
A
Memory card reader is to prefer since jerking big fat cables into your small camera will cause the connections to wear out, also reducing the power of your batteries, a separate USB card reader is a very good investment and is also compatible with a large number of cameras, so you don?t need loads of cables for your computer.
The only negative part about a card reader, is the possibility to forget the card in the reader, making it impossible to take pictures when you need to.
If anyone needs help or have questions, don?t hesitate to ask.
I?m just an amateur photographer working as a IT Technician making my technical background a much easier "base" to handle camera problems.
Sorry for my poor English since it?s not my native language.
Best regards
Tony
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