A710IS Indoor Motorcycle Show Settings

[JRU]

Hi,
I'm going to a indoor motorcycle show and was wondering what would be the best settings to use? Its indoors with very good lighting, I do not wish to use a flash and was thinking about setting the camera in the "P" setting and have the light set to Auto? Tungsten? Florsecent? or Florsecent H? w/ the flash turned off.

I do not know exactly what they use for lighting but when I went a few years back I was using a Powershot A-50 and I remember that my photos w/o the flash turned out much better that whith in on.

Any suggestions greatly apperciated.

John

[greenlight]

You don't need the flash, obviously. That will only annoy the people near you.

Use burst mode. That's the one with the three little cards stacked up. Take a lot of pictures. Delete the bad ones.

I usually set my camera for manual or shutter speed priority. 1/60 is fast enough to to avoid any camera shaking, and you can go slower if you stay very still. Manual is good because it reduces the time it takes to set the exposure.

Take lots of pictures.

[JRU]

You said "I usually set my camera for manual or shutter speed priority. 1/60 is fast enough " sorry I do not understand? This 710 is a IS camera would I still have to worry about shaking?

What light setting should I use? Or should I just leave it set on Auto ?

Many thanks,
John

You don't need the flash, obviously. That will only annoy the people near you.

Use burst mode. That's the one with the three little cards stacked up. Take a lot of pictures. Delete the bad ones.

I usually set my camera for manual or shutter speed priority. 1/60 is fast enough to to avoid any camera shaking, and you can go slower if you stay very still. Manual is good because it reduces the time it takes to set the exposure.

Take lots of pictures.

[Big Hands]

I think I would try the "M" or "Av" setting. You can set the ISO to be in the ballpark and then when you half-press the shutter, you will get a preview of how light or dark the image will be and adjust either the SS or aperture size to suit. I'd like to have control over the aperture in this setting because that will make or break your photos when shooting cars IMHO.

A small lightweight monopod or other type of support might help too.

[Neel350]

Use burst mode. That's the one with the three little cards stacked up.



What is that mode ? Are you talking about 'Auto Exposure Bracketing' ?

I wonder there it is, I didn't find at my 720.

[JRU]

On mine you go to>P ( I have not tried other settings) and then press your function/set button> then on the left of your screen look for the drive Icon when you see that you will see a square box next to that is a Icon that had a bunch of square boxes one over the other. That is the burst mode.

Problem with my camera is everytime I turn the camera off I must go back on and set the drive mode to burst. Which I will not as I think it will be a waste of time. Most of the photos I will be taking will me stationary objects under ideal lighting. I guess I will just use the P Mode and leave the flash off and the white balance on Auto. Bring a monopod or tripod would not be praticle either as there will be too many people. Hopefully the IS feature will help with the shots since I cant use a support of some type.

I will just take tons of pix and hope that the come out for the best........

John

What is that mode ? Are you talking about 'Auto Exposure Bracketing' ?

I wonder there it is, I didn't find at my 720.

[greenlight]

I thought this was going to be bmx or x-games type event.

If it is just a display of motorcycles you won't need burst mode.

[JRU]

Yes all static displays indoors, I was wondering about the burst mode. They may have someone running around on a trail bike but i have no interest in that.

Thanks,
John

I thought this was going to be bmx or x-games type event.

If it is just a display of motorcycles you won't need burst mode.

[AutoXer]

Naturally it depends on the facility, but the event I attend each year really is not as bright as you may think it is - I found I was consistently making 1/15 and 1/8 sec exposures at a film speed of 400 with my Rollei 35S and no flash.