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Re: Updated my pages; new nanofig-scale starships
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Wed, 9 Feb 2000 22:39:49 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> > [...] 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. :)
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> ?!? You can do this on the Mavica? Wow. Is this feature in all of them?
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> 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. :-,
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> Which button will allow me to see the F-Stop setting?
Well, I dunno about the FD-73, but I'm sure it can at least adjust the F-stop
interally by itself if you throw more light at it. Here's what I did on the
FD-91: Press the Program button until the cursor is on the shutter speed
selection (it'll show F2.4 / 60). Change the 60 using the +/- buttons to
confirm that the F-stop stays the same while the shutter speed changes. Now
set the shutter speed to 60 and leave the cursor on the 60, and point the
camera around the room at different lighting situations. This is the mode
where you pick the shutter speed and the camera picks the F-stop.
For example, if you point the camera into a fully lit 52-watt Sylvania Super
Saver bulb[1] from 2 feet away and zoom in on the lettering on the bulb, the
F-stop shoots up to 9.5 and stays there all the way down to about 1/300 sec
shutter speed.
If you're unable to set the shutter speed explicitly, there's still a good
chance that the camera ups the F-stop automatically in tandem with tightening
up the shutter speed when you throw more light at it.
Best advice is to shoot up a few floppies of bracketed exposures and note
what lighting scenarious work best for the particular camera.
--Todd
[1] Disclaimer: pointing digital cameras directly into bright light sources
is *not* something I recommend. Though I do it all the time myself -- and
a Sony Mavica can take some absolutely stunning photos of light bulbs this
way -- do this only at your own risk, because this *could* damage your
camera (consult your camera's documentation acceptable light variances).
Even a 150-watt light bulb is much, much darker than the overhead sun, for
example, so definitely don't point it at the sun!! :)
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