Photography / Camera chat thread.

Originally Posted by bluefishman

bleedin hell, now i have to buy another camera just to hang from the hook,

Ok i meant camera bag

Hello all. Some of you may remember me from movies such as "What middle-range compact cameras are out there" and "Lumix TZ10 or a Canon?! II"

Just to say I got the TZ10 and really love it so far! I can't upload full images as I don't have a photobucket or picasa account, but if it means anything, here are a couple of facebook-sized pics for colour or whatever. Maybe one day I will upload more:




http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._1172039_n.jpg

allan, err interesting

Originally Posted by allantheboss

Hello all. Some of you may remember me from movies such as "What middle-range compact cameras are out there" and "Lumix TZ10 or a Canon?! II"

Just to say I got the TZ10 and really love it so far! I can't upload full images as I don't have a photobucket or picasa account, but if it means anything, here are a couple of facebook-sized pics for colour or whatever. Maybe one day I will upload more:

Brilliant, glad you're liking it.
Now you just need to learn how to control your white balance, the pic with the McVitties is a bit on the blue side of things

Originally Posted by Filipe M.

Brilliant, glad you're liking it.
Now you just need to learn how to control your white balance, the pic with the McVitties is a bit on the blue side of things

YES! I was hoping someone would notice that! I basically have several options, "Aperture priority, Manual Exposure, Shutter priority" and a couple of others. When I go on anything other than auto, I get this blue sorta effect. How do I rid myself of that plague?

Also, someone's explained vaguely aperture and exposure to me, but if anybody wouldn't mind, could they give me their version?

Yay

Originally Posted by Filipe M.

Brilliant, glad you're liking it.
Now you just need to learn how to control your white balance, the pic with the McVitties is a bit on the blue side of things

I MEAN- That's the effect I wanted...

I thought I'd found my next camera until I saw the price
http://www.finepix-x100.com/en
until I saw the price
http://www.warehouseexpress.com/brand/?new&t=fuji
Looks gorgeous though

Originally Posted by allantheboss

YES! I was hoping someone would notice that! I basically have several options, "Aperture priority, Manual Exposure, Shutter priority" and a couple of others. When I go on anything other than auto, I get this blue sorta effect. How do I rid myself of that plague?

Also, someone's explained vaguely aperture and exposure to me, but if anybody wouldn't mind, could they give me their version?

Yay

Keith's academic explanation: here.

My condensed version: here.

Keith's condensed version of my drivel about flash exposure: here (you can safely ignore the bit about flash exposure for now, but the rest holds true).

As for your blues problem: when you take the camera out of auto, you're in charge of a few decisions yourself, one of them being white balance (basically a setting that will tell the camera what colours are supposed to be white / neutral, depending of the temperature of light). Look for that setting (can't remember where it sits on the Panny's menus) and change it accordingly the conditions: daylight if you're out in the sunlight, tungsten / fluorescent if you're indoors, shade if you're an open shade, and you might even find an Auto White Balance setting that will use a best guess algorithm for you and probably get it right 90% of the time. Unfortunately it will fail miserably the other 10% of the time, and that's exactly when you don't want it to, like coloured sunsets / sunrises, where it'll just bleach out the colours because the camera is looking to make everything look neutral.
The reason your shots are coming out blue right now might be something to do with being in tungsten white balance while shooting in daylight. If you do it the other way around (shoot under tungsten lights in daylight setting) you'll get the typical yellow/orange cast of crappy indoor shoots.

Originally Posted by stewie

I thought I'd found my next camera until I saw the price
http://www.finepix-x100.com/en
until I saw the price
http://www.warehouseexpress.com/brand/?new&t=fuji
Looks gorgeous though

Indeed it does...

Originally Posted by Filipe M.

As for your blues problem: when ........

All hail, DON OF THE CAMERAS!