Best option to take pics with SD630

[luis_sanchez]

Hi guys, I just joined the forum today and was cruising around it and found it really interesting. I just bought a Canon SD630 digital camera, its my first digital camera. So I am asking which mode should I use to get the best pictures from it. Auto, Manual etc etc, what resolution, i believe that setting it up on SuperFine would get the best pictures, but I know that playing with his features I can get better results.

Thank You for your time guys.

Great forum BTW...:-D

[Jon]

Superfine is good. The more detail you capture the better. As to which shooting mode, if you have time to figure out the correct exposure manual would be best, but commonly you won't have that time (at least I don't), so one of the programmed modes will work better. I prefer the "Creative" ones, which let you choose among hte ISO, shutter speed, and aperture as well as control whether to use your flash or not. I don't know if the SD630 has any/many of those however. But whichever mode lets you control the most is the one to go with most of the time. Exceptions will be for some of the situations spelled out in the "Special" scene modes, where Canon sets things you don't really have access to yourself (Kids & Pets is one, among its tricks it cuts back on shutter lag a bit).

[luis_sanchez]

Thanks a lot for your answer Jon. I would check them out to see the results.

Other question, (sorry, but I am a noob at this, so better to ask) on what depends that the picture taken can be a 1.5mb or a 4mb photo, do anyone knows what is the maximum size that the SD630 can shoot?

Thanks Again for your answers...

[Jon]

Largest is 2,816 x 2,112, whjich is about 2.7 MB/picture in SuperFine. Don't be thrown by "widescreen"; that just crops off the top and bottom to get the 16:9 aspect ratio, so it's smaller than regular "Large".

The exact size of any given picture depends on how much detail's in the picture (less detail means it's more compressible) and what ISO was used (higher ISO is generally noisier, so doesn't compress as well).

[luis_sanchez]

Thanks again Jon for your answers. I've been playing around with the options on the camera and could get some better results, for example: I didn't knew that higher ISO would create a "nosier" photo and took several shots with the different options and got really surprising results.

Thank You very much for the info.

Regards.. :-D