Me and my brother went up to App tonight, had a great time, met some cool 11 year olds that were pretty good on snowboards, and some little 4 year old girl that was skiing alone, maybe a little older, but pretty awesome, she was pretty good too, i mean she did the pizza thing going down everything, including Appal, but still, pretty neat.
Any one know why my pictures are so grainy???
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App 3/12 trip report- with pics
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SkiCop
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I believe that at night the camera will electronically compensate for the lack of light. It is similar to grain when zoomed. With optical zoom, you are OK. Digital zoom makes zooming a waste of time. A small camera with a small lens just can't gather much light.
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afrobigfoot
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SkiCop wrote:
I believe that at night the camera will electronically compensate for the lack of light. It is similar to grain when zoomed. With optical zoom, you are OK. Digital zoom makes zooming a waste of time. A small camera with a small lens just can't gather much light.
Ive noticed, specially with the manual setting, and specially when im using the ISO setting to the max, with the shutter open for 15 seconds, and the apature as low as possible ( for pictures of the lights off of the mountains) that my pictures can get quite grainy some times, really annoying. But all those pictures werent messed with like that. idk... as long as it isnt something spacificly wrong with my camera.
Thank you skicop
very nice pics, thanks. whats your camera?
looks like the crowds were overwhelming, so sorry about that that. must have been heck in those liftlines.
the snow does look good. next weekend might be ok at some of these places
looks like the crowds were overwhelming, so sorry about that that. must have been heck in those liftlines.
the snow does look good. next weekend might be ok at some of these places
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afrobigfoot wrote:
Any one know why my pictures are so grainy???
As far as I know, the only thing that will increase the graininess in digi pics is the ISO. You have to bump the ISO up for low light pictures without the flash so they won't come out blurry. If you have an auto setting it may bump the ISO up automatically in low light. So it is a sacrifice, you get more graininess and noise, but no blur (you really don't want blur though). If you use a tripod, you can take low light pics with a low ISO and avoid that.
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afrobigfoot
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Markhpnc wrote:
afrobigfoot wrote:
Any one know why my pictures are so grainy???
As far as I know, the only thing that will increase the graininess in digi pics is the ISO. You have to bump the ISO up for low light pictures without the flash so they won't come out blurry. If you have an auto setting it may bump the ISO up automatically in low light. So it is a sacrifice, you get more graininess and noise, but no blur (you really don't want blur though). If you use a tripod, you can take low light pics with a low ISO and avoid that.
Alright, for most the pictures i was using the ISO at 400, and a shutter speed of like 1/15 of a second, idk, something like that, but that answers my question, thats the highest my ISO will go.
Thank you mark!
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pagamony wrote:
very nice pics, thanks. whats your camera?
Canon Power shot A610
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SKISC wrote:
Usually is ISO. You could use a tri pod and go to 100 and see if it helps. I know the pod would not be fun skiing with but it is the only way to ge the exposure I think you will need with the lower setting.
Yeah, ill just say screw it to taking pictures at night while skiing
