SP 350 questions

[lemurs2]

Okay, first time out with shooting UW. I tried to shoot in RAW most of the time but found the pictures coming out blurry or to dark. I had no strobe, Ikelite Housing and had access to all controls. I shot in a variety of settings and conditions. I did not, however, have an UW corrective filter. Would this have helped with the slow shutter speed in RAW?
I tried A, S and even P for Raw and had trouble with blurriness because of the slow shutter speed.
Any suggestions? Some photos came out w/ or with out a flash and some didn't

[jlyle]

Okay, first time out with shooting UW. I tried to shoot in RAW most of the time but found the pictures coming out blurry or to dark. I had no strobe, Ikelite Housing and had access to all controls. I shot in a variety of settings and conditions. I did not, however, have an UW corrective filter. Would this have helped with the slow shutter speed in RAW?
I tried A, S and even P for Raw and had trouble with blurriness because of the slow shutter speed.
Any suggestions? Some photos came out w/ or with out a flash and some didn't


What were your shutter speeds? You can only hold the camera steady at ~1/60 sec or faster. Go to S and set the shutter to 1/60 - if the pictures are too dark, increase ISO.

If you shoot Aperture priority, look at the shutter speed when you half press - don't let it fall below 1/30 sec! Open the shutter wider or go to higher ISO to keep the shutter speed fast enough.

RAW has nothing to do with the settings.

[Michael_Lambert]

i to have the SP350, I took it to aruba this past Sept. I shoot in Raw to give me more to work with. You can check out some of my pictures just go to "Scuba"

www.michaellambert.ca/aruba

[herman]

Shooting RAW has nothing to do with how the exposure or focus comes out. My guess is your shooting some combination of too fast of a shutter speed, too high of an Fstop and poor shot selection. Unless you are in really shallow, clear water your shots will be dark if you try to shoot wide angle or distant shots, a wreck for example. The internal strobe is good out to maybe 2ft at best, anything more and your shots will likely be underexposed. Concentrate on close and macro shots with the internal flash. Try manual mode with a shutter speed in the 1/60 to 1/100 range- higher if you want dark backrounds (shutter speed determines the backround exposure) and an F-stop of 4 to 11 depending on the strength of your flash,reflectivity of your subject and distance to your subject. The exact F-stop to distance setup is going to take some experimenting but that's what makes digital photography so great. You can see the results of your experiments real time.

[RockyHeap]

I set my ISO at 200 or 400, maxed out F-stop at F8 gets you better contrast, and yes, no shooting below 1/60th...........

Getting a DS-125 strobe for your rig would make the world of difference.

then, practice practice practice.

[lemurs2]

Great! Thanks for the replies. I think I had my ISO set way to low. Another thing I like about digital is that even if I have it set on one of the U/W modes I can check the properties to see what it set the values at.
Do any of you use an U/W correction filter?