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How to take pictures with very low light I am a college student with a low budget and cannot afford to take photography coarses. If anyone can give me some tips about using a pentax a3000 without a flash to take pictures in very low lighting perhaps around sunset, or events of equally low light, it would be greatly appritiated. I have not yet figured out how to control the shutter on this camera.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
The lower the light the longer the shutter should be. If it's dark in a room, you open up a window. You leave it open longer if there's not much light outside to let in. don't know what pentax 3000 looks like, but there should be a dial that you change shutter speeds with.
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Jon Close |
>"...I have not yet figured out how to control the shutter on this camera."< Download the manual from the Pentax website. The shutter speed cannot be set directly on the A3000. The shutter dial has a settings for: To shoot in dim light without flash, set the shutter dial to PROGRAM, and the aperture ring on the lens to "A" (camera will automatically pick an aperture), or to one of the smaller numbers on the ring. Smaller aperture numbers, aka f-stops or f-numbers, denote wider aperture settings that let more light through the lens. To get faster shutter speeds, use a with a higher ISO rating, like 400 or 800.
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Jon Close |
oops. should be "... use a film with higher ISO ..."
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Danielle E. Rutter |
An important thing to note, though, is that the slower your shutter speed, the higher chances you have of getting a blurry photo. So if you're taking pictures of moving objects then slowing down the shutter speed may help you get more light but it still won't give you a good picture. But if you're going for landscape photos or the like... then just get yourself a tripod and you'll be just fine. :) Good luck!
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