Frustrations
Jun. 10th, 2011 11:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
witchscauldronSo...I've mentioned a few times my frustrations with my new camera. I've tried everything I can, gone through manuals, tutorials...anything I could find to try to help.
Turns out it's not just me, as I'd sort of assumed. The camera itself is just pretty much cheap crap. You get what you get, when you shoot indoors. It adds a load of pixellated noise to -everything-, no matter what I do. The end result is that I cannot take a nice clear focused shot of jewelry - period.
Even as a casual camera, it's sort of useless. Indoors, you can't get a clear, focused shot in decent light unless the flash is on, and then the colour and background are ruined. Action shots? Forget about it.Even with the VR on, it's impossible to avoid it looking like a Picasso light painting, unless it's on a tripod. Which sort of ruins the notion of spontaneous photography.
Outdoors is better...but I can't be spending all my time praying for good weather to shoot my jewelry outside, or expect all the things I'd want to photograph to happen outdoors. Really...at this point I can't honestly expect any sort of focused clarity. It just doesn't capture anything sharply.
I maybe should have guessed when I kept trying the macro filter, and it just produces out-of-focus shots of things that should be super clear.
So.
I've worked up some decent things, but I'm pretty pissed about the whole thing. I want to throw the damn thing in the lake - I am deeply offended by how terrible it is. I -really- miss my old camera. I guess it's time to see if I can get it repaired.
Turns out it's not just me, as I'd sort of assumed. The camera itself is just pretty much cheap crap. You get what you get, when you shoot indoors. It adds a load of pixellated noise to -everything-, no matter what I do. The end result is that I cannot take a nice clear focused shot of jewelry - period.
Even as a casual camera, it's sort of useless. Indoors, you can't get a clear, focused shot in decent light unless the flash is on, and then the colour and background are ruined. Action shots? Forget about it.Even with the VR on, it's impossible to avoid it looking like a Picasso light painting, unless it's on a tripod. Which sort of ruins the notion of spontaneous photography.
Outdoors is better...but I can't be spending all my time praying for good weather to shoot my jewelry outside, or expect all the things I'd want to photograph to happen outdoors. Really...at this point I can't honestly expect any sort of focused clarity. It just doesn't capture anything sharply.
I maybe should have guessed when I kept trying the macro filter, and it just produces out-of-focus shots of things that should be super clear.
So.
I've worked up some decent things, but I'm pretty pissed about the whole thing. I want to throw the damn thing in the lake - I am deeply offended by how terrible it is. I -really- miss my old camera. I guess it's time to see if I can get it repaired.
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Date: 2011-06-10 04:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-10 06:31 pm (UTC)I tend to avoid strobe anything. The reason I turn the flash off my camera in the first place is that I'm photosensitive epileptic, and I like having my brain not melt. :p
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Date: 2011-06-10 08:10 pm (UTC)