BetterPhoto Q&A
Category: Focus Problems (Blur)

Photography Question 

Diane Dupuis
 

Problems with Indoor Action Pictures


 
  wrestling problems...
wrestling problems...
where did his leg go?

Diane Dupuis

 
  wrestling problems 2
wrestling problems 2

Diane Dupuis

 
  wrestling problems 3
wrestling problems 3
different gym, different lighing, with tripod and slow synchro flash...

Diane Dupuis

 
  wrestling problems 4
wrestling problems 4
also - with slow synchro flash and tripod

Diane Dupuis

 
  wrestling problems 5
wrestling problems 5
took this one with my Chinon Handyzoom 5001 400 asa regular flash on tripod

Diane Dupuis

 
 
I have a Fujifilm Finepix 2600 Zoom. I can't seem to get any decent pictures when at indoor wrestling matches. Bad lighting doesn't help, but whenever there is movement (which is what I'm trying to capture), either I miss it due to the delay between pressing the button and the picture being taken - or it looks like this... I went back to my old film camera - and got much better results. I just don't want to pay for development anymore! And really love the ease of downloading and adjusting my digital pictures. Fujifilm suggested using the slow synchro flash and the ae/af function - which I tried... Any suggestions?


To love this question, log in above
February 01, 2004

 

Jon Close
  There's little you can do.
To help the shutter lag, turn off the red-eye reduction feature, and keep the shutter half-pressed so that the camera is always focused and maybe the image sensor cleared to record. But otherwise there's nothing to do about the shutter lag of your point & shoot digital.

You are also doomed with respect to stopping motion. The Finepix 2600 has a sensitivity equivalent to ISO 100 film, and you cannot change it. On slow sync your photos are very nicely exposed, foreground and background, but the shutter speed is too slow to stop subject motion. To stop motion, the most you can do is select flash at the camera's highest sync shutter speed, and be close enough to the action that the relatively weak built-in flash is within its working range. You will be able to freeze most motion, at the expense of your background going dark/black.


To love this comment, log in above
February 01, 2004

 

Diane Dupuis
  Thanks Jon... Sorry to hear that there is no miracle fix...


To love this comment, log in above
February 01, 2004

 
- Gregory LaGrange

BetterPhoto Member
Contact Gregory LaGrange
Gregory LaGrange's Gallery
  Just a better camera and stronger flash.


To love this comment, log in above
February 01, 2004

 

Mark O'Brien
  Upgrade to a camera like the Minolta A1 -- very fast AF, and you will see a big difference. Plus, using an external flash will help greatly. However, you hit the nail on the head -- no shutter lag in film cameras -- a definite problem with point-n-shoot digis.


To love this comment, log in above
February 10, 2004

 
This old forum is now archived. Use improved Forum here

Report this Thread