Image Stabilization Question

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gilad50303

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Hey guys, I am about to buy the Canon a710. I have one question though, is the stabilizer only for the zoom? Like I take many pictures that I have to change the aperture and such so there will be more light but the shutter speed is less because I can not use flash sometimes.
I enjoy tennis and this is an example:
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The picture is not zoomed. Would that feature not make the picture to blur?
Thanks!
 
Hmm..., shouldn't be just for the zoom, is this on sports/active mode with the camera? A lot of the time, the general moder of shooting doesn't do well with action shots...
 
Yeah, try the action setting is there is one, otherwise, if you can make the appature bigger and lower the shutter speed.
 
No the image stabilization is for slight movement only. As an example is when you take a picture with your camera; you press down on the shutter button and the pressure makes the camera move slightly. Those kinda of blur are more of the shutter speed than anything else. You will need a better shutter speed set to take better motion pictures.
 
Computerhakk is right. If you want to reduce blur on your subject you're gonna have to get your shutter speed up. Sometimes on a P&S in manual mode I have been able to get my shutter speeds a little higher with IS turned on and making the aperture a little larger and keepign the ISO around 800. You're gonna to practice to find out what yours can do.
During sports, I would try to keep my shutter speed 1/250th at the absolute bare minimum
 
I don't have IS or a tri/monopod so I have to practice keeping my camera still. I've found that this makes for better results later on.
 
bldgengineer said:
I don't have IS or a tri/monopod so I have to practice keeping my camera still. I've found that this makes for better results later on.
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Its much easier to do with no zoom, or if you dont have to zoom up far. But if you have a 12x optical zoom camera, trying to keep it stably on your own is a bit hard :P
 
computerhakk said:
No the image stabilization is for slight movement only. As an example is when you take a picture with your camera; you press down on the shutter button and the pressure makes the camera move slightly. Those kinda of blur are more of the shutter speed than anything else. You will need a better shutter speed set to take better motion pictures.
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That sounds familair :P

bldgengineer said:
Computerhakk is right. If you want to reduce blur on your subject you're gonna have to get your shutter speed up. Sometimes on a P&S in manual mode I have been able to get my shutter speeds a little higher with IS turned on and making the aperture a little larger and keepign the ISO around 800. You're gonna to practice to find out what yours can do.
During sports, I would try to keep my shutter speed 1/250th at the absolute bare minimum
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I was right also!:cool:
 
You try keeping a 300mm camera lens steady! When I take action shots with our SLR's I set the speed to thousandths of a second. However, your camera may have Apature Exposure lock which locks the exposure rate, to use it, point it at something bright, activate it and then re-focus and take the shot, makes things much easier.:)
 
Hey guys,
I just got my Canon a710 and it is one amazing piece of technology. One question though, it does not seem to have a sports mode on it, what is up with that?
 
Thanks. How come that if I zoom into an object a lot, it likes reading the background instead of the subject? how do I change that?
 
gilad50303 said:
Thanks. How come that if I zoom into an object a lot, it likes reading the background instead of the subject? how do I change that?
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depends on the lighting. when its in an auto mode your camera is making your decisions for you so it basically will try to get the best picture at its current settings in the conditions it sees. I don't know what settings the a710 has, but if you have a spot metering setting, it is probably in a multi-zone or multi-pattern setting. If you change that to a center weight, raise the iso and slow the shutter speed down it should be able to consentrate better on a stationary object center framed.

Moving objects are a different story. As I and a couple others have said before, if you want to get the moving object still in the picture, you're going to have to increase the shutter speed. If you can't/won't use flash increase the shutter, turn IS on, raise the ISO, and raise the aperture(smallerthe number, the better). If you have to get closer, you have to get closer. If you get the aperture to stay around 3.2-4.0 with a shutter speed of 1/250th or higher you should be able to get your shot(an f/4 might be pushing it if the lighting is low enough).

Take a test pic, if it comes out too dark try overexposing it a little bit. If you can't get the aperture up to near 3.2-4.0 try pointing at a white or close to white object near your point of interest just before the shot and set your camera to burst mode.
 
You may have to change the way that it focus'

It'll have probably about 3 options, maybe 4. It'll change the way that it focus', it'll either be, a point, the whole picture or a small amount in the middle of the picture, sometimes it may let you maunual focus but I don't know if you camera will let you do that?

Also, If you are trying to take a picture of something close up, turn it onto Macro mode, this will allow the lense to focus on things much closer to it.

Also, If you are outdoors and are trying to take an action shot and the light is pretty good, Have the ISO around 200, Lower apparture to about F6, and have the shutter speed as fast as you can without the picture being under exposed, you'll have to play around with these settings to get it just right though. If there are a lot or some shadows in your picture and you don't want them there, turn the flash on, this will act as a fill in flash and remove some of the shadows often giving a more professional studio style shot. :)
 
Hey guys, I have more questions. How do I turn Macro mode on on the a710? Also, how come that when I look through the viewfinder, I don't get the picture that it looks like I'm getting? Like, the picture is off of what I see.
 
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It'll be one of the options on the turn wheel at the top, Have you looked in the manual, check the Index for Macro, it should tell you there.

'Off of what you see' you mean they screen and the viewfinder aren't lined up? This is something you have to deal with really, it's hard for them to get it perfectly lined up, you can simply compensate for it.

Or you could look at the screen when taking a picture?
 
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