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Night Pictures Anonymous
I went to China and Hong Kong a month ago and when I can back and looked at my pictures, all the night time pictures were really blurry. I have a decent Canon 6 Megapixel camera and I was wondering about changing the settings and stuff to better capture nighttime stuff without it looking really blurry.
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>> Anonymous
Well, the main thing is that taking night shots with a crappy point and shoot will probably never get you acceptable shots. The sensors are way to small and you're going to get insance amounts of noise like in your pic (all that blue shit). You're going to need an SLR for decent night shots. Oh, and a tripod wouldn't hurt.
>> Anonymous
well thank you very much dear anonymous. I know next to nothing about photography.
>> Anonymous
>>71585
Yeah, just remember that the darker it is, the longer the shutter has to stay open to capture the image (i.e. in your pic, it was 1/20 of a second). At longer shutter speeds, you're also a lot more vulnerable to any tiny movements of your hands or whatever and you can ruin a good shot because of that. That's where the tripod comes in.
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>>71583
With this level of darkness, he's going to need to take a long exposure on a tripod anyway, so SLR low-light performance advantages aren't as important. SLRs are great for low light things like where you need to shoot handheld and can't get a fast enough shutter speed with less than f/1.8 ISO400.

Op: Step 1 is to get yourself a tripod. If you don't have a tripod with you and really want to take a night shot like this, find a stable surface (e.g., a low wall or a trash can or something) and set your camera down on it. Then set your camera's self timer. Any jostling of the camera during the exposure will result in a blurry picture, up to and including just pressing the shutter button. A lot of Canon cameras have a 2-second self timer (in addition to the 10-second self timer) for exactly this purpose. You turn on the 2s timer, hit the button, then get your hands off the camera with time for any movement from your touching the shutter to settle down a bit before the exposure starts.

Also, make sure your ISO is at its minimum and don't try to do something stupid like using your flash to light up an entire city.