9 megapixel camera image
Sandi
I just bought a Sony Cyber-shot 9.1-Megapixel Digital Camera, it comes with a lens hood and lens adapter ring that you're supposed to hook onto the lens. What is the purpose of these?
Answer
lens hood is to minimize glare from ambient light from what i understand... lens adapter ring? perhaps to attach extra lenses... i have a Canon Powershot S3 IS, and it has the ring thing too. I understand that it's to attach special lenses to give you extra zoom, special features, etc. You'd have to check the manufacturer's website to see about lenses that would work for it though. check out sonystyle.com and look in their cameras section. there may be extra lenses specific to that camera, unless you can take the Minolta A mount lenses like the Sony Alpha series of Digital SLR cameras. either way, check sony's website
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lens hood is to minimize glare from ambient light from what i understand... lens adapter ring? perhaps to attach extra lenses... i have a Canon Powershot S3 IS, and it has the ring thing too. I understand that it's to attach special lenses to give you extra zoom, special features, etc. You'd have to check the manufacturer's website to see about lenses that would work for it though. check out sonystyle.com and look in their cameras section. there may be extra lenses specific to that camera, unless you can take the Minolta A mount lenses like the Sony Alpha series of Digital SLR cameras. either way, check sony's website
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Why does my digital camera focus on the background instead of my subject most of the time?
Steve E
We get awesome sharp results of the background, but our subjects will be blurry! It seems no matter what setting we put the camera on it always does this. The camera is a Fuji Finepix with 9 megapixels. We can't get good action shots, either. Any ideas? Thanks.
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This is a bit of a complicated question to answer but I'll try and give you a basic idea here. I'm also not sure which model camera you have so I can't be certain that all the details will be 100% accurate but you should still get the main concept.
When you take a photo with most cams, there's a two-stage process: half-pressing the shutter button first to lock focus on your subject, and full-pressing to capture the shot. If you don't half-press and allow the camera to determine focus (ie. you just full-press right off the mark), the camera will automatically hunt for the first thing it can focus on, and sometimes it'll get it right, sometimes it will fire prematurely. In this scenario, always half-press, wait for the camera to lock focus and give you a signal that it's ready to fire (usually the focusing rectangle lights up a green color), and then full-press.
The 2nd thing you want to keep in mind is that most compact cameras rely on contrast detection to achieve correct focus. If you're trying to focus on a part of a scene that has very low contrast, the harder it'll be for the camera to determine what exactly you're trying to focus on. This can sometimes be tricky so if the camera refuses to confirm focus (green rectangle), refocus a few times or focus on something more contrasty but that's at a similar distance away from you as the actual target.
There's more to this but try the two suggestions above to get you started. Good luck!
This is a bit of a complicated question to answer but I'll try and give you a basic idea here. I'm also not sure which model camera you have so I can't be certain that all the details will be 100% accurate but you should still get the main concept.
When you take a photo with most cams, there's a two-stage process: half-pressing the shutter button first to lock focus on your subject, and full-pressing to capture the shot. If you don't half-press and allow the camera to determine focus (ie. you just full-press right off the mark), the camera will automatically hunt for the first thing it can focus on, and sometimes it'll get it right, sometimes it will fire prematurely. In this scenario, always half-press, wait for the camera to lock focus and give you a signal that it's ready to fire (usually the focusing rectangle lights up a green color), and then full-press.
The 2nd thing you want to keep in mind is that most compact cameras rely on contrast detection to achieve correct focus. If you're trying to focus on a part of a scene that has very low contrast, the harder it'll be for the camera to determine what exactly you're trying to focus on. This can sometimes be tricky so if the camera refuses to confirm focus (green rectangle), refocus a few times or focus on something more contrasty but that's at a similar distance away from you as the actual target.
There's more to this but try the two suggestions above to get you started. Good luck!
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