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In Reply to: Re: Sounds like.. posted by kjd2121 on April 8, 2005 at 13:35:24:
I am trying to use this nice digital camera to take pictures for a sale, and the problem is that the camera picks up things I can;t even see by eye. Like little tiny pieces of paper towel, or maybe a film that by eye I just don't know is there until I se the picture on screen.What do you do about this?
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Try taking the pic in a daylight, maybe on the sun, with flash disabled. Play with settings, and angles you take a photo from. Try using different backgrounds (large paper/fabrics). Pics taken with a flash tend to over-empasize stuff like fingerprints, dust etc.
I'll have to see if there's a way to disable the flash. I'm in the basement, but I have overhead lights, and a lamp on either side. But the camera flashes automatically (Nikon coolpix 3200).I see people taking nice pictures, but I have always picked up the littlest smudges I could never see. I suppose I'll need alot of light to do it otherwise?
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You can disable the flash with your Coolpix, There shoukd be a button with a lightening bolt icon. With the display on, press the button to toggle through the flash options. It is diabled when the lightening bolt with a circle and line through it appears on the screen.Good Luck!
This camera was bought on eBay, and the manual is en francais. I found how to turn the flash off, and the pics are so much more as seen by eye. The only thing now is perhaps something else changed, because unless I really steady the camera, it comes out blurry. All in all, this has helped a zillion!
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Another possibility. Are you looking through the viewfinder or at the LCD screen on the camera back? The viewfinder of most digital cameras severely crops out a lot of the picture area that will be recorded. The LCD display gives a truer idea of what you'll get. If the unwanted details are on the margins of your picture, then that's the likely culprit.
Learn photography. It's about looking and thinking BEFORE you press the shutter. Digital photography makes it easy. Results are instantaneous and you don't have to pay over and over again to develop film, just erase what you don't want and try some more. Carefully set up what you want to photograph. Take lots of shots. When you see something in the photo you don't like, go back and see if it was really there. Then look at the image again in the LCD or viewfinder and see if you can see it now. Read your camera's instruction manual. And most important, practice, practice, practice.
One of the advantages of a digital camera is we can take around 20 photos using different angles, different settings, etc. It's relatively easy to look at them all on my computer and select the few I want to use for an auction. You can then immediately delete any you don't use. It all takes time - but to me that's part of the fun. Enjoy! Fran
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