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From: rfdjr1 on 27 May 2010 23:34
I recently bought an Olympus SP800UZ. Tonight I was trying to take some flash
pictures, inside, of a new guitar. Shots were taken from four to six feet away.
Not one of about a half dozen shots were as clear as I would expect from the
camera. As I said, I used flash, I have the AF illumination turned on as well as
image stabilization. I was using the camera hand held, as my tripod was down in
my car. What else, short of a tripod, could I have done to try and get a sharp
image?
From: SMS on 28 May 2010 00:01
On 27/05/10 8:34 PM, rfdjr1(a)optonline.net wrote:
> I recently bought an Olympus SP800UZ. Tonight I was trying to take some flash
> pictures, inside, of a new guitar. Shots were taken from four to six feet away.
> Not one of about a half dozen shots were as clear as I would expect from the
> camera. As I said, I used flash, I have the AF illumination turned on as well as
> image stabilization. I was using the camera hand held, as my tripod was down in
> my car. What else, short of a tripod, could I have done to try and get a sharp
> image?

Unfortunately, the SP800UZ does not support a more powerful external
flash, so short of a tripod there's little you could have done. Well not
totally true since the FL-36R and FL-50R flashes will work wirelessly
with the SP800UZ. Alas they are quite expensive compared to D-SLR flashes.
From: Vance on 28 May 2010 01:32
On May 27, 8:34 pm, rfd...(a)optonline.net wrote:
> I recently bought an Olympus SP800UZ. Tonight I was trying to take some flash
> pictures, inside, of a new guitar. Shots were taken from four to six feet away.
> Not one of about a half dozen shots were as clear as I would expect from the
> camera. As I said, I used flash, I have the AF illumination turned on as well as
> image stabilization. I was using the camera hand held, as my tripod was down in
> my car. What else, short of a tripod, could I have done to try and get a sharp
> image?

My guess, just from your written description, is that the in camera
noise reduction is causing detail smearing. A touch of sharpening in
some software or other should help a lot. From a few feet away, the
flash is probably providing all, or most, of the light and it will be
the flash duration that will basically determine how much movement
effects the image. Starting with sharpening would be the most
effective way to work up to getting the best images from that camera
you can.

Vance
From: Outing Trolls is FUN! on 28 May 2010 03:23
On Thu, 27 May 2010 21:01:43 -0700, SMS <scharf.steven(a)geemail.com> wrote:

>On 27/05/10 8:34 PM, rfdjr1(a)optonline.net wrote:
>> I recently bought an Olympus SP800UZ. Tonight I was trying to take some flash
>> pictures, inside, of a new guitar. Shots were taken from four to six feet away.
>> Not one of about a half dozen shots were as clear as I would expect from the
>> camera. As I said, I used flash, I have the AF illumination turned on as well as
>> image stabilization. I was using the camera hand held, as my tripod was down in
>> my car. What else, short of a tripod, could I have done to try and get a sharp
>> image?
>
>Unfortunately, the SP800UZ does not support a more powerful external
>flash, so short of a tripod there's little you could have done. Well not
>totally true since the FL-36R and FL-50R flashes will work wirelessly
>with the SP800UZ. Alas they are quite expensive compared to D-SLR flashes.

What he could have done is not read your delusional pretend-photographer's
inanities.

No doubt he's not used to a super-zoom lens of any sort. THEY DO NOT FOCUS
CLOSE unless told to by using macro modes within a constrained focusing
distance.

Learn your camera. RTFM.

From: Outing Trolls is FUN! on 28 May 2010 03:24
On Thu, 27 May 2010 22:32:32 -0700 (PDT), Vance <vance.lear(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>On May 27, 8:34�pm, rfd...(a)optonline.net wrote:
>> I recently bought an Olympus SP800UZ. Tonight I was trying to take some flash
>> pictures, inside, of a new guitar. Shots were taken from four to six feet away.
>> Not one of about a half dozen shots were as clear as I would expect from the
>> camera. As I said, I used flash, I have the AF illumination turned on as well as
>> image stabilization. I was using the camera hand held, as my tripod was down in
>> my car. What else, short of a tripod, could I have done to try and get a sharp
>> image?
>
>My guess, just from your written description, is that the in camera
>noise reduction is causing detail smearing. A touch of sharpening in
>some software or other should help a lot. From a few feet away, the
>flash is probably providing all, or most, of the light and it will be
>the flash duration that will basically determine how much movement
>effects the image. Starting with sharpening would be the most
>effective way to work up to getting the best images from that camera
>you can.
>
>Vance

The advice of yet another idiot pretend-photographer troll.

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