Well I just got a Sony H2, and here are a couple of the first pics that I took tonight.

My car is filthy from rain a few days ago, but its still pretty cool with the Christmas lights. Took the night shot in manual mode with iso80, F5.0, 5sec. The white balance is a little off, I took it off some bright white Christmas lights on the porch.

Over all I'm really impressed with the camera. At first the previews on the screen where a little underwhelming, but when I got them on the computer I was . Can't wait to get it out during the day for some nice macro shots

 

hey check out my pictures with my new camera and tell me what you think its in the non z forum

 

The quarter looks a little fuzzy.. Or maybe i've just had one too many??

 

It will get fuzzy on teh back if you have it set to focus on teh front of the quarter. nothing much you can do about that-- macro shots ftw!

 

seems a bit noisy for ISO 80, did you meant ISO 800?

 

Agreed; what would you be using iso 80 for at night?

 

haha yeah at the time I didn't know how to change it yet And I was right next to it in the menu.

The full pic looks better before I re-sized it and compressed it, also that shot with the Z was literally the first pic I took with the camera The quarter i took with the fstop at like 2.8 so not a lot of depth. I've got all the settings figured out now, I just need to play with it in manual to see how it performs.

 

Sooooo pretty.

 

I thought you use bigger ISO for lower expossure?

 

I believe the higher ISO means that the film will be more sensitive to light, and will be exposed properly with less light than a lower ISO film. Yet the compromise is that it is more grainy than low ISO film. I believe this is good for low light conditions as well as long telephoto lenses which are not able to gather as much light as wider angle lenses.

I know with film you have to make a conscious decision every time you load your camera. With digital, it's probably rarely thought about by the average person.

 

Yeah on a digital camera the iso is basically boosting the signal that the sensor is picking up. Its not gathering any additional info, its just increasing what it already has available, this includes any noise. Same principal of turning up the volume on a noisy recording. The noise is there, but when you increase the volume it becomes more apparent.

 

sure there is... up the apeture (fstop) that was prob shot at like f2.8 or somewhere close to that... making it like fstop 13 or something will make the whole image in focus still keeping the macro ability.

just need more light to compensate the smaller apeture...

(think of it as squinting your eyes... when you squint you can see a bit further and your also allowing in less light...

 

Very Pictures!

 

fixed it for ya.. don't go too post whorey or you'll miss some words

 

^^ lol...thanks man!