My first digital pictures

Ross. I don’t know the 3100, but I do have the 5700 so there may be some similarities.

On mine there is a mode that at the cost of a grainier viewfider image gives you a much shorter lag time.

Also, as I rarely print out the pictures, mostly posting them or viewing them on computer I’ve stopped using the ‘hi’ resolution setting (tiff) and gone down to ‘fine’ (jpg format) which is more than adequate (I still need to reduce size and resolution for posting) and cycles much faster.

Moggy

I don’t think the 3100 has that. It doesnt give manual control of very much at all except white balance and increasing or decresing exposure( i think thats what it is; EXP-/+ in the menu). I have been putting all my Hendon photos through Paint Shop 7 and have removed the grain and improved the colour, so I’ll have to put them on cd to get them developed.

It’s a Nikon 3100. I had to keep adjusting the exposure time depening on the light which was a bit of a pain, but i’ll get the hang of it. The slow speed between pressing the button and the camera actually taking the picture was also annoying as well as the time it takes to save the camera to memory which meant i could only get one picture of a plane as it taxied past.

Ross. I don’t know the 3100, but I do have the 5700 so there may be some similarities.

On mine there is a mode that at the cost of a grainier viewfider image gives you a much shorter lag time.

Also, as I rarely print out the pictures, mostly posting them or viewing them on computer I’ve stopped using the ‘hi’ resolution setting (tiff) and gone down to ‘fine’ (jpg format) which is more than adequate (I still need to reduce size and resolution for posting) and cycles much faster.

Moggy

Well done, Flood, I personally would not have even attempted that particular “repair” in Photoshop! My speciality is removing unwanted people from backgrounds!

Last one

I have not looked through them fully yet but here is one I quite like. It shows the scale of the flightline.

Thanks Flood – a minor miracle – The reason I took the photo by the speaker was the first two shots were marred by the a/c not being in the shot fully because of shutter lag!

Panning with an open eye solved that one as can be seen by the pic of the Spit. That was where I took the initial shot of the P39! Sunday was a fast learning curve for me!

Me too! For photoshop experts how do you get rid of loudspeakers? – pic 2

Um, under the circumstances it would be easier for you to just have moved away from that post…;) A little care saves time and effort, as someone higher up the food chain used to say to me whilst I tried to spot out scratches and hairs on prints…
Top = yours.
Bottom = my poor attempts to remove the speaker, reconstruct the tail and the horizon, get bored and just copy more horizon instead, then blur the background and level the picture. Time wasted = ages.

Flood.™

Info For Papa Lima

have a look here and search on review for yr camera..it says that you should be able to adjust the shutter speed using the front or rear control dials??

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just down to your shutter speed…. from memory this is again about 100th or 125th… I’ve not delved in to the black art of tweeking/photoshopping yet.. all my pictures so far are straight out of camera apart from resize to fit on here.. I’m pretty pleased with the camera so far…

Me too! For photoshop experts how do you get rid of loudspeakers? – pic 2

see the post above yours! we must’ve been pressing the ‘enter’ key at the same time!!! to change the shutter speed its the upper and lower buttons on the circular control panel on the right hand rear of the camera..

Neil.

I have read many times in this Forum that the shutter speed should be around 1/120th second to get the props right, but my question is how to do it on my camera! Perhaps some digital cameras just won’t let you set the shutter speed to a specific value? Any experts around?

ground shots are OK with mine, as per attached… Papa Lima, on this one I turned it to S mode (shutter priority) then used the downward arrow key to set the speed to about 100th I think…

Hi Ross, I’ve just bought my first digital camera too (minolta Z1) – th egreat thing is that it doesn’t cost you anything to practice with it and you can see the results instantly! main limitation with mine is flying shots of prop a/c.. the sport mode focuses OK but insists on a high shutter speed so you get frozen props – jets are ok !! examples below.. best of luck with yours..

I noticed the same with my camera, the props look like they are either stopped or moving very slowly. This spitfire was taxiing past but it’s blades hardly look like they’re turning.

Guzzineil, I too have a Minolta (Dimage A1) and can’t get control over the shutter speed – I have searched the instruction manual over and over again and cannot find out how to set the shutter speed although I know where the shutter priority command setting is! Is anone around who could give me a little guidance please? Perhaps as a PM?

Dave

if you dou watch video cameramen that is their standard technique, and if you are following moving objects there is not a lot of difference.

Thanks for that – I seem to have learnt a well known technique by accident! I wish someone had mentioned it on the many posts about photography recently. I got some good cloudscapes though!

Dave

Hi Ross, I’ve just bought my first digital camera too (minolta Z1) – th egreat thing is that it doesn’t cost you anything to practice with it and you can see the results instantly! main limitation with mine is flying shots of prop a/c.. the sport mode focuses OK but insists on a high shutter speed so you get frozen props – jets are ok !! examples below.. best of luck with yours..

A few minutes work…

Flood.™

Very nice! 🙂

These are the best of the bomber hall pics. The slow shutter speed meant some are very slightly blurred (a tripod or anything that would hold the camera steady would solve this)and there is a bit of a grain on the pictures. But they are a lot better than the ones i took with my ordinary camera.