lighting on my powershot a410

[Tumaru]

I got a PowerShot A410 for Christmas but whenever i try to take a low light photo the image that i am looking at fades when it takes the image so i am left with an image of black with maybe a few dots of light. The funny thing is that i know it can see the light in, I look at the LCD screen and see the image that i want but it doesn't record it. What can i do. I've already tried low lighting settings and boosting the exposer

[Diminished29]

For low light photography you need these key ingredients:

1. Large apertures (small f numbers)

2. High ISOs (200 or 400)

3. Low Shutter speeds (if your handholding nothing less than 1/30 - 1/60)

4. Shooting in manual or aperture priority is suggested by many.

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Tripods are ideal for low light or nightscape photography, sometimes its too much hassel therefore knowing your camera and now to set it up properly is a must.

Here are two pictures that I often show people as examples of what you can achieve in low light with good settings. Again both of these pictures were done with the same settings

Manual mode
ISO400, cleaned up in NeatImage
1/60
F/3.5
no flash

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e347/Diminished29/Animals/chloe28.jpg

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e347/Diminished29/Portraits/philhil2.jpg

[Tumaru]

thanks, it worked, im pretty sure