Wantonmien
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I take mostly macro and close up shots and use an inon s2000. I keep my iso at 100 and tend to use the following: f 5.6 or 8, speed 120 or 250.
Cheers - type of info I was looking for.
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I take mostly macro and close up shots and use an inon s2000. I keep my iso at 100 and tend to use the following: f 5.6 or 8, speed 120 or 250.
I just came back from Bonaire and took about 500 pics with the G15. First the 1080p video is amazing. I used a ton of different setting UW and over all wasn't overly impressed with the g15 upgrade from the g10. They g10 took almost the same picture quality. The UW macro settng in the g15 was terrible. It had a hard time focusing. So I just used the regular macro setting in Program mode with my own UW setting. That seemed to work a little bit better. But the macro feature on this camera still does not seem to be as good as the g10 or g11. Hopefully after a few hundreed more pics I can work out the bugs and figure it out.
Compact camera focus mechanism work on contrast detection so you need sufficient light for the camera to focus
The macro setting of the camera only shorten the minimum working distance but does not improve matters if there is not enough light to focus
Canon compacts are good but not amazing at focus so for macro you may want to get a focus light and ensure you are working with center focus on a small area as obviously the multiple point focus is not going to work at all