RE: Digital Cameras and TCs

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Original poster: "Lau, Gary by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Gary.Lau-at-compaq-dot-com>

A couple of tips:

The level of ambient lighting in the room should be as low as possible, to
allow for long (1/2 - 1 sec) shutter speeds.

If possible, provide a dark backdrop for the streamers.

If your camera has manual settings, set the equivalent film speed to ISO
400.  Open the aperture as wide (low number) as possible.

Regards, Gary Lau

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Subject:	Digital Cameras and TCs

Original poster: "CJ Moore by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<wizard1234-at-home-dot-com>

I have had some difficulty using my digital camera to take pictures of arcs,
they always come out really dim in comparison to what they normally look
like.

I have a really nice digital camera and so I can change a lot of the
settings to manual, like shutter speed, etc.

I was wondering how you guys got such nice pictures of spark, if a digital
camera can be used to get the nice pictures and what kind of settings it has
to be on.

Thanks,
CJ