Mal
01-07-2006, 02:38 AM
Ok I'm more or less a n00b when it comes to photography. I've been using a Canon A40 more or less as a point n' shoot. I got the T9 a few days ago and found my results to be quite different than I experienced with the A40.
I like taking photos without flash. I found the A40 does a good job in most cases. BTW, the A40 is a hand me down from a friend who is a proffesional photographer. So I don't know if maybe he has tweeked some of the settings on the A40. Unfortunately he's away and won't be back for several weeks.
The problem on the T9 is that it's red or orange shifting the exposures whether the flash is on or not. When I shift back and forth from the realtime framing mode and the picture review you can see a clear shift to orange almost as if it were shot in candle light.
I'm using the factory defaults and auto exposure settings only turning on and off the flash. I also used my A40 to take shots of the same scenes only a few minutes later but with no change in lighting(indoor floods). They came out with the same balance of colors as usual.
So my question is: Is this just the way the Sony is or are there tweeks I can do to get similer performance as my A40?
Time is short if I am to take this thing back.
I'm wondering if I should have gone with the SD 550? Being it's a canon and should give me similer if not better results as the A40? I opted for the T9 because it is smaller and I like the stead shot feature. And also because it got such great reviews.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Mal
I like taking photos without flash. I found the A40 does a good job in most cases. BTW, the A40 is a hand me down from a friend who is a proffesional photographer. So I don't know if maybe he has tweeked some of the settings on the A40. Unfortunately he's away and won't be back for several weeks.
The problem on the T9 is that it's red or orange shifting the exposures whether the flash is on or not. When I shift back and forth from the realtime framing mode and the picture review you can see a clear shift to orange almost as if it were shot in candle light.
I'm using the factory defaults and auto exposure settings only turning on and off the flash. I also used my A40 to take shots of the same scenes only a few minutes later but with no change in lighting(indoor floods). They came out with the same balance of colors as usual.
So my question is: Is this just the way the Sony is or are there tweeks I can do to get similer performance as my A40?
Time is short if I am to take this thing back.
I'm wondering if I should have gone with the SD 550? Being it's a canon and should give me similer if not better results as the A40? I opted for the T9 because it is smaller and I like the stead shot feature. And also because it got such great reviews.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Mal