Beginner Night shooting

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Hi I am very amateur but getting better, though somewhat limited by my camera at the moment. I want to invest in a new one , but absolutely nothing complicated and a must is that it will be good for night photography. Any advice please.
 
Would be useful to know what type of night photos you are after. If its still night time landscape. A good tripod would be a good buy. If your subjects are going to be moveing. A camera with good high ISO low noise performance will be needed.
 
and what you currrently have..

@MWHCVT is your man for night questions... but even he is going to need more info than you've given here
 
As above we need more info, to be honest most night time stuff pretty much any camera with manual controls will do the job, but there are of course exceptions to this, so depending on what you want to do will dictate really if you actually need to buy a new camera right now :thumbs:
 
Well embarrassingly I just have a Nikon Coolpix. Regarding what type of photos, moving sometimes but mainly static I think. With my camera , anything too far away doesn't show up in the dark!
 
what budget do you have
ideas on camera types (bridge/csc/dslr etc)
what subjects
etc
 
pinkcamera said:
Well embarrassingly I just have a Nikon Coolpix. Regarding what type of photos, moving sometimes but mainly static I think. With my camera , anything too far away doesn't show up in the dark!
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Nothing embarresting though at least I know understand why your camera is limiting you :)

Are you looking at being able to take pictures of people at night, or are you thinking of landscapes and the like?
 
Animals, landscapes,I don't take pictures of people as subjects, though they do get in my way sometimes! Budget wise , hmmm, limited, Just want to have something that is easy to operate initially
 
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given that you are coming from a fully auto compact, i'd tend to suggest a Bridge camera with the option of manual controls - personally I like the panasonic TZ series (mines the 35 but i think the most recent is the 60).

For landscapes at night you are talking long exposures so ideally something that allows you to connect a remote and use (B) Bulb mode , or at least to set manual exposures.

Animals are not going to be easy - they move so long exposures are out , and you are talking either flash/continous lighting , or very high ISO (or an IR capable camera like some trap cameras etc - but thats a whole other ball game)
 
I have to agree with Pete, realistically night time wild life depending on what your planning on capturing and in what level is a fairly involved form of photography and one that needs very expensive equipment landscape and other types of night time photography are a lot more welcoming to the beginner and beginner level cameras
 
Back , busy xmas! I've just been given a Fuji Finepix S , will this produce better results than my Coolpix? Can't work it at the moment, no manual
 
The Fuji FinePix S series has a large number of cameras; which one do you have?

Dave
 
The Coolpix camera you have is also one of a large range so it is difficult to say how it compares to the Fuji Finepix S1730. The manual for the S1730 gives the maximum shutter speed as 8 seconds which will make some nightime shots (eg of stars) pretty much impossible. The maximum ISO is 6400 but I suspect with the small sensor in the camera shots at this ISO will be very noisy. However, as digital photos are effectively free just experiment a lot. If you want comments or help with your photos, post them on here.

Dave
 
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Hi Im back how do I post photos please
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You can add them as attachments Or post from your gallery space on here files been to be no longer than 1024px on the longest edge and I believe no more than 350kb in size for those two methods, alternatively you can use another service to host the images such as Flickr, pix.ie etc and then use code from there to embed them to your post
 
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