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ok, here's the story; my uncle went out by his car last night and kicked something. it ended up being a canon z135 camera! somehow, someone must have dropped it there, so now he has a $100 camera! i have no experience using "real" cameras and i need to know what these settings mean: anyone here know?
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ok the flower is macro mode, the face is portraite mode, the star is night mode, the running guy is action mode, auto is auto mode and the others let you play with settings
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Quote, originally posted by russ257 »ok the flower is macro mode, the face is portraite mode, the star is night mode, the running guy is action mode, auto is auto mode and the others let you play with settings ok, so what does macro and portraite do?
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macro is for taking close ups of things and portrate is for taking portrates of people
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I don't have a Canon camera, but my "night scene" thing is different on my Pentax, and I think that may just be a mode for if your subject is backlit by the sun. That seems to me to be what the picture is.
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Just for a little further clarification on Portrait Mode, my Canon S1 digital has that as well.On the S1, it makes the subject in the foreground sharp and blurs the background. I would imagine it's the same situation here.
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aight den. from what i have read, it is a pretty good camera. can anyone concur? should i expect quality shots of my vibe to come out of this puppy?
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I would say as long as the optics weren't damaged when/if it was dropped, it should do OK.
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My canon has to be sent back to Canon. I dropped mine quite some time ago. Then on vacation in September all my photos had developed a black dot. I thought maybe its a burnt out pixel, but no, it appears in the prints as well. I rubbed the lens but its still there.
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We have a Canon PowerShot S100. For a 2.1 MP camera, it takes good photos. We also have a Canon Optura video camera, which we're quite happy with.How many MP is the camera in question?
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Quote, originally posted by pmh013 »How many MP is the camera in question?isnt that on digicams only? this one takes film
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Quote, originally posted by drunkenvibe »isnt that on digicams only? this one takes filmOh ... wow. I never even considered that it would be a film-camera. Here's me in my technological world.
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blech, i hate technology!
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