Canon Digital IXUS V3

[Scarface]

I recently bought the Canon V3, after looking around at other cameras and reading information.
One reason why I bought a digital camera is because of the Red-Eye Reduction function. But I still get red eyes when I take pictures indoor.

When I went back to the dealer I bought the camera from, he says you’ll get that, because the flash is close to the lens.

Is there any tips or advice anyone could give me about what I can do to reduce the red-eye..

Thank you

[stduc]

Make sure you have red eye reduction turned on.
Get subject to look either at the camera or as close to the camera as practicable.
Avoid using zoom.
The brighter the room lighting the less red eye you will get.
Buy an external flash gun (but that rather defeats the object of having a pocket camera!)

Failing that - this is a digital camera - so that's what red eye elimination software is for! Personally I use Paintshop Pro 7 - it's brill at removing red eye.

[stopbath]

Best option is raise the ambient light level as noted by stduc.

But try to have the people not look at the camera since this allows the light to easier get into and out of the eye. (Since the flash is on your left, have the people look to your right by perhaps an armslength - more if needed.)

You should be as close to your subject as possible (avoid long focal lengths, shoot wide angle.)

Also, raising your ISO, will reduce your flash output, which will reduce the severity of the red-eye, but raises the amount of video noise...

People with blue eyes are more likely to have red-eye.

Watch your LCD display review, as you can quickly see if red-eye is present, allowing you to change things around and reshoot, or you can fix the shot in a graphics program.

I've never been a fan of red eye reduction mode.

[stduc]

stopbath

Please note - subject has to look at camera for red eye reduction lamp to work. The Ixus range use a nice white light which does the job of closing the subjects pupils quite well. It's the A70 with its feeble red affair that fails! You are quite correct tho in your observations about get close and use wide angle. I do find tho that since PSP added red eye elimination I can stop worrying about it. You can also print two copies of your picture - the 'evil eye' and the corrected one. Scores brownie points with the naive!

[Scarface]

thanks for the help.