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Re: Updated my pages; new nanofig-scale starships
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Wed, 9 Feb 2000 19:49:06 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> My biggest complaint about the focus (and my only gripe about the Mavica)
> is that the pixelated screen on the back of the camera is insufficient in
> terms of manual focus. I have to snap off a dozen shots at different focus
> settings, then load them in PSP to see which ones actually turned out.
The good news on focus is that increasing the light provides added choices:
you can increase the shutter speed (1/60 -> 1/250, for example) or increase
the F-stop (1.8 -> 5.6, for example), or a combination.
Increasing the F-stop is generally the way to go if you want the images to
appear larger than life (as opposed to little models) and free from unwanted
blur. A higher F-stop means a tighter pinhole, which in turn means a larger
depth of field, which in turn means better focus. Try it out interactively
by putting the camera into auto-everything (the one where where you can watch
the F-Stop change), and then point the lens at your outstretched fingers and
move around the room into various lighting conditions and check out how the
depth of field changes. :)
--Todd
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| (...) ?!? You can do this on the Mavica? Wow. Is this feature in all of them? I *think* our model is the FD73 -- it was top-of-the-line when we got it, but there was only one Mavica model below it...Arg. I wish I brought it to work today. :-, Which (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
| | | Re: Updated my pages; new nanofig-scale starships
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| In lugnet.publish, Todd Lehman writes: SNIP Good advice. The idea behind diffusion is a bit counter-intuitive. Turn the lights around and reflect them off something white. Copy/typing Paper works well for small objects. You can also do similar (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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