Digital Camera Night Photography

I'm looking for a good quality, point and shoot compact digital camera that excells at taking photographs at night or under low-light conditions. I know all about using high ISO and fast shutter speed but many digital cameras cannot process low-light images quickly or have autofocus problems in low-light. I've tried several Kodak and Sony models so far but they're very bad. Can anyone help???

I've had similar problems with Kodak digital cameras - autofocus for a few models I've tried is slow and indecisive in low light or night photography. Most compact point and shoot cameras are notoriously slow to process photos.

A few tips on buying a camera for taking photos at night:

1. You want a camera with ISO capability of 800 or higher.
2. Adjustable autofocus and preset to 3 meters or more.
3. Adjustable white balance.

Most compact digital cameras come have resolutions of 6MP or more. When shooting at night... or anytime where quick processing is needed... reduce the the resolution down to 4 or 5MP.

A few digital camera brands seem to be better than others but Canon seems to make very good compact digital cameras.

Finally... While compact digital cameras are very convenient, they simply cannot beat the performance of a digital SLR. If you're serious about taking photos, I'd just bite the bullet... sacrifice the convenience and affordability and get an SLR.

2007-12-17 14:51:43 by heyilikethat

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any tips to share in taking night photography with automatic digital cameras? photos taken are usually blur or overexposure

The shutter will be open for a long time, so anything that moves will be blurry. Also, if you are holding the camera you will move it so everything is blurry. Put the camera on a tripod or at least set it on something sturdy such as a fence or the top of your car while you take the photo.

Cameras are really dumb and don't realize when it is dark. The light meter thinks you want the scene to be a typical scene with white and black balanced instead of being mostly dark as you would expect. Set it for 1 f/stop underexposure if your camera has that feature. Otherwise, adjust the exposure in an image editing program such as Photoshop afterwards.

2007-07-21 08:29:57 by anxious

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With those requirements you are greatly limiting yourself. I suggest that you go to http://www.dpreview.com to look at the cameras that are currently available. [For night photography, I'd look to Digital SLRs. You'll be pretty limited with a point-and-click, even a good one.]

As for night photography, you should be looking for the widest aperture that you can find. The aperture is the little f/5.6 number used when discussing lens capabilities. The LOWER the number the wider the lens opens. You need the wide aperture (hole) so that you can get a lot of light into the camera in a short period of time -- otherwise you risk movement blur.

2006-01-25 08:50:23 by vishalhmba

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pl help and suggest min what must be megapixle also for kodak camera.

Easyshare P850/P880...




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2006-09-06 23:15:17 by tallniceguyon

I have a Kodak DX4330 Camera, I am not satisfied with the results of this camera, I am a serious photographer, I need a camera within Rs.20,000 which is capable of taking photos at day and night. must have aextreme close up facilty.
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hi i have sony 7.2 digi camera which gives good result as per my demand.its in deed a good camera giving awsome resolution specialy in close up shots. it also good in micro close up photography. it has flesh with increase/decrease facilityso u can handly it at night. But at long shot its resolution may affects its picture quality-but,u can solve this problem on ur pc .so buy the sony and enjoy. if u want i can send u some sample taken by me.
thanks

2006-07-26 08:10:37 by Dilip S