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I disagree with this statement and thus with most of the rest of your post. These two pictures were taken with low shutter speeds, on the order of 1/60" or 1/45"...ambientZ said:to capture movement you need a high shutter speed.
It's hard to tell for sure what's going on here. Unless there is a defect in your camera, you should definitely be able to get speeds faster than 1/60". From looking at some descriptions of the modes, the only obvious thing I can see is to make sure you're not in "night snapshot" mode.EnforcerGT said:I have a canon SD200, and I cant get it any faster than 1/60th sec in the brightest weather/lighting. The stats say 1/2000th but how do I get it any faster than 1/60th??
I got this camera just based off the stats but I might have to reconsider.
Image stabilization techniques can allow for slower shutter speeds, but even with higher ones there's few reasons to turn it off if your camera has it. Many of the cameras with some form of stabilization built in have reasonably fast lenses with fairly high shutter speeds because the idea behind the camera is allowing sports shooting.ambientZ said:Image stabilisation is featured in several cameras now, but you do NOT want this, it allows for SLOWER shutter speeds to capture more light.
EnforcerGT said:I was really hoping to catch some water drops.....So far this camera has really been a disappointment. With its auto mode being a poor choice to take pictures with, the long exposures looking bad because of the short range of the flash, and now, not being able to use its fast shutter like the paper claims.
Looks like that camera is bastardized.EnforcerGT said:Thats the thing. I dont have sports mode, or an option to change my F mode or set my aperture size.
I have manual mode, but, Exposure settings, ISO, and flash on/off is really ALL i have to work with. I guess im really down now.
edit: I went to the canon website and I see pictures with 1/500th, 1/400th sec shutters on the SD200 here
Sorry, man. RTF thread. I'll link again and quote Steve's Digicams directly:emorphien said:I know you can set manual shutter speeds and apertures, you have to actually switch the camera to M mode and you may have to push the selector dial or whatever that camera has to switch em. Time to rtfm because I know it tells you how.
For those who like more control its features a Manual mode, however it does not allow for choosing the aperture or shutter speed values.
I'm too lazy to look it up... but he's talking to me on IM. If people provide links in the first place I won't ramble on about a camera I've never used and give the straigh shit: camera can't do it.HorsePunchKid said:Sorry, man. RTF thread. I'll link again and quote Steve's Digicams directly:
Ouch. It may be that one of these mystery modes (Auto, Manual, Digital Macro, Portrait, Night Snapshot, Kids&Pets, Indoor, and Underwater) forces a faster shutter. My guess would be digital macro (a water droplet is certainly a macro subject) or kids & pets (since they move pretty quickly, I guess). I'd hope the printed manual would have some details, but this is why I think EnforcerGT just needs a more capable camera.