Friday, August 11, 2006
double wings
While trying to get a decent spider picture (I failed miserably), I saw this lovely double-winged butterfly ona sunny trail in the woods of NCSU's Centennial Campus. 
¶ 10:59 AM 
While trying to get a decent spider picture (I failed miserably), I saw this lovely double-winged butterfly ona sunny trail in the woods of NCSU's Centennial Campus.
¶ 10:59 AM
Comments:
Links to this post:
<< Home
Do you have manual settings on your camera to get close-ups like that, or does the camera adjust automatically?
It's a Canon PowerShot A400 - pretty much Canon's 'entry-level camera' from 2004 (3 Mpixel). But I'm having a blast with it, and don't feel the need to move 'up' until I feel like there's nothing I can learn with this one.
But to answer your question: it does adjust automatically if you tell it you are trying to take a close-up shot - so I guess it's both manual and automatic to some extent. But it's not like I am having to find the focus point myself (which is good!) Of course, I can now start to see where that would be a Good Thing to have absolute control of (focus, depth, etc), but until I get some more experience I am happy to let the camera make most of those decisions. I think I *can* put it on fully manual, though, although I'm not sure about focus. I really do need to look uo the manual for it :-/
What I really need to do is read more about this camera, but also about photography principles in general. Now that I have taken enough shots to know that I don't know very much at all, I have a better sense of what I don't know, if that makes sense :)
The Canon does a pretty good job, though, I think. I'm happy with it as a learning tool, and will probably keep it for my 'snapshot' camera well after I move on to 'bigger and better' (and 'heavier'!).
Post a Comment
But to answer your question: it does adjust automatically if you tell it you are trying to take a close-up shot - so I guess it's both manual and automatic to some extent. But it's not like I am having to find the focus point myself (which is good!) Of course, I can now start to see where that would be a Good Thing to have absolute control of (focus, depth, etc), but until I get some more experience I am happy to let the camera make most of those decisions. I think I *can* put it on fully manual, though, although I'm not sure about focus. I really do need to look uo the manual for it :-/
What I really need to do is read more about this camera, but also about photography principles in general. Now that I have taken enough shots to know that I don't know very much at all, I have a better sense of what I don't know, if that makes sense :)
The Canon does a pretty good job, though, I think. I'm happy with it as a learning tool, and will probably keep it for my 'snapshot' camera well after I move on to 'bigger and better' (and 'heavier'!).
Links to this post:
<< Home
