What's a good "standard" camera setting for night photography? No flash, no tripod!?

Question

I always mess up my aperture and shutter speed settings...P does not work at all if I must hand hold my camera.

Answer 1

What you need to do is learn basic photography instead of just buying another camera. You may need to buy another type of camera and/or lens AFTER you come to understand what is needed through your reading, but education is the first step, not buying solutions. Your current camera may work at night just fine but you could simply be using it incorrectly or simply have unrealistic expectations of what is possible.



In brief, what is needed for handheld photography in dim lighting is a fast lens, high ISO and a steady hand or to brace the camera on available objects. Wider lenses are also nice because you can shoot at slower shutter speeds without getting camera shake. Of course if you are shooting moving objects below 125 or 60, you will get motion blur from them. 35mm and medium format cameras are excellent with low light photography, particularly in b&w. You can achieve ISOs of 3200 to 12800 with very noise-free results. And faster, wider film lenses tend to be much cheaper than equivalent digital lenses.



Good Luck!

Answer 2

There's no such thing as a "standard" setting for any kind of shooting, day or night. Every shooting situation is unique. During the day for example if you set up a shot letting the camera make the decisions it will be this. Turn 90 degrees and the settings will be different.



P is program. It's basically full auto with a couple of manual control options. I use it on my Canon dslr cameras because it allows me to use a single - dead center focal point instead of the multi focus points.



Another thing you're not understanding is that night shooting is first tricky because it nearly always involves time exposure. You can read about time exposure in various articles on line. Another thing is that if you're doing time exposure you always (and I do mean always) need a tripod. No person alive can hold a camera steady enough to avoid blur.



Anyway do some research on time exposure and I'm sure it will help you. Good luck

Answer 3

Although there is no "standard", you probably need to set you aperture, to as large as you can, like F2.8, if you can, set your ISO as high as you can,1600 perhaps (yes you will get appreciable "noise"). Try to use the fastest shutter you can, depending on the first two settings, maybe as slow as a quarter second.



You will find your results much more satisfying, if you get a tripod.



Apparently Jim needs to read his manual, if he did he'd realize that he could pick his center focus point in manual also, not just "P".

Answer 4

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Answer 7

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