I purchased the CANON A95...was satisfied with the day pictures....but was equally disappointed with the Night Shots..can anyone let me know if there is actual problem with the nightshot in A95 or if we have to do some setting for the same...
Can anyone please help me with the best setting for a nightshot..imagine i have to take snaps at TIME SQUARE or may be in LAS VEGAS..
In order to use the night mode on your A95, you do not need to do anything, but you need to keep in mind that night mode means long shutter and thus either tripod(in the best case) or solid surface the camera can hold on to.
I have never used that mode on my camera, but remember that any long shutter shots you will hand held will look bad because u can't stay still for that long. Actually you probably can't hand hold a shot at 1/6 and in some cases, shutter speed as slow as 15 seconds will be needed.
And generally speaking the shutter speed you can hold should be 1/ the lens focus distance(in 35mm terms). So if you are at wide angle(38mm), you can go as slow as 1/38s, whereas if you are at full telephoto(114mm), then you should go faster to 1/114s.
No, you shouldn't use Auto Mode for night shots... The reasons I advise against are because Auto mode will set ISO to Auto, thus varying between 50 and 200, so it will surely choose 200, meaning an increase in noise. Also, because in Auto mode the longest shutter speed is 1 second which is not enough for most night shots.
For a night shot, I'd suggest you use either manual modes(Tv and M). Also, you should preferably set the ISO to 50 in order to keep the noise level as low as possible. All that would also imply using a tripod... and ultimatly use the 2second shutter delay so that there is absolutly no camera movement from pressing the shutter.
Nightshots with Canon A95
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