Shutter speed higher than 15'' ?

[AndromAK]

Hello.

I have the PowerShot G3 for few weeks, and i have some questions.

- Is it possible to use a shutter speed higher than 15'' for night shots?

- Is there any software to download pictures instead of ZoomBrowser?

- When I download pictures, those which are in a vertical position are in duplicate. How to resolve that?

thank you...

[gicleeman]

I don't know about exposures longer than 15 seconds, but regarding your other questions...
You can use a card reader to download the pictures right to your desktop (or any folder) without any software. I've seen them as cheap as $10.00.
You can turn auto rotate off in the camera's settings menu. See page 111 of your maual for details.
Peter

AndromAK wrote:
Hello.

I have the PowerShot G3 for few weeks, and i have some questions.

- Is it possible to use a shutter speed higher than 15'' for night shots?

- Is there any software to download pictures instead of ZoomBrowser?

- When I download pictures, those which are in a vertical position are in duplicate. How to resolve that?

thank you...

[Genevra]

If you turn off Auto-Rotate, you will then have to manually rotate all of your vertical pics after downloading them. A better way to take care of the duplicates is to turn off the "copy rotated image" feature in Zoombrowser. Simply open Zoombrowser. Then in the Tools menu, choose Preferences. One of the tabs is rotation. You can choose there if you want the original picture rotated, or if you want it to rotate a copy of it. Once I selected for it to rotate the original, zoombrowser stopped putting 2 copies of vertical images onto my computer, and the one copy I get is oriented vertically.

-Genevra

[12345Michael54321]

AndromAK wrote:
- Is it possible to use a shutter speed higher than 15'' for night shots?


No.

It's my understanding that most digital cameras would tend to produce very noisy images with ultra-long exposures, and consequently don't permit them. I cannot swear that this is true, but it at least sounds somewhat plausible.

In any case, if a 15 second exposure isn't long enough, the technique of digitally stacking images is an option. Freeware stacking software is readily available.

If stacking isn't appropriate (due to the nature of the scene), and 15 sec. isn't long enough, you'd be better off using film. Or, I suppose, one of the relatively few digital cameras that do permit ultra-long exposures with good results. But the G3 won't be a good choice.

[canon_g3_user]

Genevra wrote:
If you turn off Auto-Rotate, you will then have to manually rotate all of your vertical pics after downloading them. A better way to take care of the duplicates is to turn off the "copy rotated image" feature in Zoombrowser. Simply open Zoombrowser. Then in the Tools menu, choose Preferences. One of the tabs is rotation. You can choose there if you want the original picture rotated, or if you want it to rotate a copy of it. Once I selected for it to rotate the original, zoombrowser stopped putting 2 copies of vertical images onto my computer, and the one copy I get is oriented vertically.

-Genevra


Hey thats great thanks for the tip I have always wondered why the software placed two copies, at last some order in my pictures

[Genevra]

Hey, no problem! I just happened to stumble across it one day, and it made me very happy, as the double pictures were annoying me too!

-Genevra

[AndromAK]

Thank you very much for your answers...

See you soon :)

[ryuwulf]

You could increase the ISO to 400 so that your G3 will become more sensitive to light. this should give you a little more leverage.