Re: [Paddlewise] New Waterproof Digital Camera

From: Tord Eriksson <tord_at_tord.nu>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 22:24:18 +0200
On Friday 15 April 2005 19.30, you wrote:
> For those of you with digital point-and shoots, how high an ISO setting do
> you typically use? I've heard that the P&S cameras aren't as usable at
> high sensitivities as the digital SLRs.

My Konica KD-500Z has just one setting, and that is not very high
(I would guess 160), and I have not found that a problem outdoors.

See

www.foldingkayaks.org/gallery/tord

I underexpose a step and a half,
to prevent white areas from
washing out.

Then I reset the exposure range using
GIMP 2.2, Photoshop 7.0, Photoshop Elements,
or similar, using the levels function (not autolevels,
please).

My Olympus C-8080WZ is much trickier
to get a good result from, and its colours
are not as true, but indoors it is a much
more capable camera, and at night as well.

So for daylight photography, even at sunset
a single speed is OK and usually produces
much less noise than a camera with 25-400
range.

But at low level, with noise reduction on
the C-8080 is amazing!

Tord
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