S330 help. I shake a lot! not steady. Ideal settings?

[loulax07]

I am going to the university of michigan next week again and want to take some great lookin pics
my hand tends to shake a lot and need some help
is there some mode, i guess ISO speed, exposure, etc... what can i adjust so it takes the pic real quick. inoticed that it takes some time when i hold the shutter button down...... anyone have any expereince with these? what should the ideal settings be on this camera, i am thinkin i messed somethin up.

[Jerry Vanderberg]

Theoretically, you want to increase your shutter speed as much as possible. For this, you will either have to shoot in bright light or increase your ASA "film" speed (leading to some graininess). I'm not sure how successful any of this would be. I think that your best bet is to use a tripod or a monopod.

[loulax07]

how would i increase my shutter speed

[Guillermo Freige]

loulax07 wrote:
what can i adjust so it takes the pic real quick. inoticed that it takes some time when i hold the shutter button down...... anyone have any expereince with these?

This is the infamous "shutter lag". Every digicam (in fact, every camera, digital or not) has this lag. Mainly this lag is the time needed by the autofocus (AF) system to properly choose the focus point and focus the camera. You can avoid this time prefocusing the image (pressing the shutter halfway) and then taking the picture. The second lag factor (this one mainly present in digicams) is the time taken by the internal computer of the camera between the full pressing of the shutter and the actual photo taking. Usualy this time is much shorter than the autofocus lag, and you can do nothing to try to reduce it.

To try to avoid shaking, try to use the higher ISO settings (400 or 200) and check if the resulting noise is ok. You can't modify aperture or shutter speed in the S330, sorry. You can also try with some negative exposure compensation (-1/3 or -2/3 EV). You will end with a darker picture, but also with less shaked picture, and you can ligth the picture again in the computer.