Redeye on the A80

Hi

Just got the A80 and very very happy with it. I took it to my sons school the other night for the end of year show. The pix came out ok except that everybody seems to have redeye.

I haven't done anything to adjust the flash at all and wondered what I can do to stop this happening.

Never used your camera so this is general advice. Most cameras have a red-eye reduction option on their flash settings. You could try that.

If that doesn't work/you don't want to use it etc, I'd just remove the red eye using PS or whatever.

Thanks, but I am already using redeye reduction.

Were you taking photos of them acting on stage?

Yes they were on stage.

I suddenly have this feeling that I am about to be told a very obvious answer that I should have thought of.

wildgoose1uk wrote:
Yes they were on stage.

I suddenly have this feeling that I am about to be told a very obvious answer that I should have thought of.

Lol! Not really

Red eye occurs where there is a large differential between the ambient light and the brightness of the flash. The red eye reduction feature probably won't work on stage so I can only think of two things: Increase the brightness of the stage lights, or removing the red-eye in post-processing.

Unless someone else has any brighter ideas....

moose I've had that issue happen once with my a80
i was taking pix of my neice's bday party
I'm not sure why I got a red I shot but the only thing i could come up with is that she was under a light and i wasn't

How easy is it to do post processing?

Not bad at all - Some software packages have a special red-eye reduction option built in, but otherwise its pretty straighforward to do it manally.

The software that came with my camera had a red-eye reduction option on it. I'm a Nikon user so this may not be applicable for you, but it would be worth looking.
- I believe your camera comes with Photo Impression and that it has red-eye opition.

There have been quite a few threads on this so it would be worth doing a search to see what software others have used.