June 4, 2014
-
Eureka!
Ham for lunch, with cranberry sauce, potato salad and a steamer of broccoli, carrots, snap peas and baby corn.We dropped off checks at First Farmers and First National before doing our weekly shopping.
Nothing brings out Mary's smile like a small child.
In Walmart, Mary was enchanted by a young couple's six-day-old baby.
The Sony RX100 behaved itself at Walmart. No unasked flash.
***Warning: TMI***
Back home, I scootered down to the mailbox and snapped the renovation/repair that was going on across the street. The Sony RX100 insisted on using its flash again. In full daylight. Resulting in a dark picture. Grrr.
Sony RX100 in Auto mode = Flash fired
The shot had been made at ISO 160, lowered by the Sony in the Auto Mode for the bright sky. Hmm. That made the rest of the picture too dark. No way to change the metering in Auto Mode. Seems to me to be a design flaw. There should be exposure bracketing.
Next I tried the Sony HX20V in Auto Mode. No problem with the flash. Either the sky was whited out or it wasn't. In two attempts, the resulting pictures were better than those using the more pricy Sony.
Sony HX20V in Auto mode.
Sony HX20V in Auto Mode.
I tried again at the outpost. No problem with the flash there. The RX100 has no problem when there is no high contrast in the scene.
Sony RX100 II in Auto Mode.
After thinking it over a while, I decided to try the RX100 at the mailbox again. This time, shooting in the Program Mode so that I could change the Multi-frame metering to Centered Metering from the menu.
Sony RX100 II in Program Mode set to center frame metering from the menu.
Eureka! I had some control now. But, I still think Sony should have solved this for the Auto Mode.
At the outpost, got a visit from George. Told him I might have a tomato ready to eat next week. Rub it in, rub it in. Hehe.
74.6 °F, clear.
Comments (7)
If you have a zoom, you can eliminate much of the sky, and the camera will adjust for less light. Also, if you have a post-processing program (picasa is a free download), you can crop out much of the sky, which will also get rid of some of the light -- then autocontrast will give you the result you want (with the possible addition of fill light). I love the shot from the outpost!
Low light is a problem that I get too. I shoot only in Manual and sometimes for long exposures In AP mode, never auto cept when I use my iphone. The 160 iso, even for during the day, sounds very low. 200 is the ultimate low iso number for daytime dslr shots, but there are times I have shot with 800-1000 during the day with very little noise. 160 sounds very low, depends on the situation 100 can do long exposures. If the auto mode is like the iphone the way it adjusts itself is different from dslrs and shooting high speed will change the iso.
I shoot in raw all the time, it's a must for outdoors because the exposures can be adjusted in adobe, where as Jpegs are very limited because the files are already closed. Actually low light is a problem for most photographers. I didn't know flash works for landscapes.
I think I would have shouted something like "Eureka" at the sight of the meal!
Love your food and your photos. I only use my cell phone. lol
I love your photographic talent. Xanga has several good at it like you.
I remember my mother said you can't take the baby out and around people for weeks. LOL
of ocurse my baby is almost 40 yrs old.
+I love the photo of Mary smiling! She does have a smile that lights up her face!! On the issue of camera settings I'm completely without a clue and all the comments seem to be in a foreign language... Though I do like the photo from the outpost. As for the tomato you make me smile. Sibling rivalry lives forever!! hehe!
Mary does indeed look truely happy there. I wonder though, what was so necessary to risk bringing a 6 day old baby into the cesspool of germs that is Walmart; Couldn't a spouse or neighbor have made the trip for her? The mom looks great though, and yes, I love babies too, so I would've smiled at it too.