Customizing Canon G6

Hi.
I´m interested in customizing my g6 for better results in difficult situations. Has you know, we can adjust setting in c1 and c2 mode.
1- I would like to have C1 setting adjusted for interior shots (e.g. for shooting my livingroom with sodium light)

2- And I would like to have C2 setting adjusted do night shoots for shooting landscapes(e.g. a distant bridge or bulding faraway)

Thank you for time.

Bruno (Portugal)

For 1)

Set your ISO to 200 (or if the noise is OK 400). If you are shooting with the same lighting and to JPG and not RAW, you may wish to save a custom white balance,

For 2) Have the ISO at 50 (or 100)

2) _needs_ a tripod, with 1) you will be able to set your ISO lower with one. Best to use the remote for setting off the shutter too, or use the 2 second delay timer.

Thank you.

But i'm hopping you could be more specific about aperture/speed you use on both cases.
You see, one of my problems is that both situations have poor light, so they need small velocities. By that, my photos are usually shaking. At night, i know i should use a tripod, but i don't beleave that everyone that goes out at night having a drink, must carry there big bag with all the material.
The same goes for interior house shoots.

And what about metering mode. Any advice?
I shoot in Jpeg (Manual Mode).
Thank you once again.

If you are in Av mode, not zoomed out, the aperture wide open at 2.0. and the ISO set at 400, the camera will set the fastest shutter speed that is properly exposed according to the exposure compensation you have selected. The more underexposed, the faster the shutter speed.

Of course, you may not be able to live with the noise generated by ISO 400. And the wide aperture may give some Depth of Field problems. Everything is a tradeoff.

SuperKully is right. There is no standard white balance adjustment. The best you can do is put it on Auto and hope it does it right. Too bad you aren't shooting RAW. With RAW, white balance is non-destructively adjustable during conversion. Also in RAW, you can underexpose a little more and fix it in conversion.

There will be times that you just can't get clear low light shots without a tripod or flash.

Indeed. If you're shooting landscapes at night you need to make the effort of carrying around a tripod and never speaking the ISO400 dirty word.

But you want some hard numbers.

For your inside rooms, at night (this is completely mad, because I don't know how well they are lit) you're looking at F2 at ISO400 for a 1/60 shutter speed. Remember that 1/60 is the minimum speed you should go down to when shooting by hand, you may find you can go down to 1/30 - but you'll only find out by giving it a try and checking the results. If you do go down to 1/30 you can drop the ISO to 200.

But this is getting very old-fashioned, the G5/G6 isn't my 1961 Yashica SLR. For both instances, as lefturn said, set your aperature for F/2 and if the meter suggests a speed less than 1/60 open your tripod. F/2 isn't ideal for landscapes, but if you must then use this:

http://www.dofmaster.c​om/dofjs.html

to get a feel for how much will be in focus.

If you don't want to carry a tripod with you, you can hope to find something to support your camera. Like when I take photos at night with no tripod I might find some type of flat railing I can sit my camera on, then I use the 2 second timer and take the picture, that works really well (if you're lucky.) Or you can learn to hold your camera very steady, a few tips, before you take the shot, breathe in and hold it till the shutter closes. Also, hold the shutter button till the shutter closes, otherwise you'll shake the camera when you let go. Basically the same technique as firing a rifle over long distances, except you don't have to account for wind and gravity so much.

You don't actually state it, but are you saying you don't want to use flash for the living room shots? It seems a 420ex would solve your indoor shot situation.

Thank you all.

You were very kind. I'll will try all your advices as soon as i can. I also found this site, that i hope it could be usefull for any photographer. With it, I've made a compliation of the main light conditions, and made a table to join my machine everytime i go shooting.

If you like seeing my pictures at www.olhares.com/brunom​ighuel, your welcome.
See you.

Sorry. I forgot to put the site's adress i was refering to.
Here it goes:

http://www.robert-barrett.com …/exposure_calcu​lator.html

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