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Anonymous
I have a Sony Cybershot DSC-P72, and while I know this is nothing like a professional camera, I'm wondering if anyone else has used it and has any tips for getting better shots out of it? The lack of manual focus and inability to disable the flash without putting it in slow exposure mode is really troublesome, but I was lucky to even get this camera, since it was less than half-price at the time.
>> Anonymous
I had one, it was my first digicam but believe me...
The best you can do is working on the composition of your pictures...
And seriously, you don't know what are you talking about...
Manual focus? Come one, you can't even control the shutter speed or aperture, why the hell would you be worried with manual focus? Well...
And dude, honestly, in auto or program, if you push the Up directional button (it has a flash over it), you can disable it...
and FUCK! WHY THE HELL THESE STUPID TROLLS KEEP POPING UP?
Know what? nevermind! Go figure out your camera before babbling over here... I bet if you carefully spent the same amount of time you used to post here, in figuring out our camera, you wouldn't be asking such questions
>> Anonymous
>>51964

Dude, what the fuck? Take your goddamn ritalin and go back to /b/. I was asking a legit question.

I already know how to disable the fucking flash, and I already said what happens when you do. So gtfo and shove your camera up your know-it-all ass.
>> slim !yE5LOsLjxQ
shut the fuck up you two. /p/ is known as 4chan's most polite board. i like it like that.

OP: your camera doesn't have the stuff to take creative photos. it's very simple and basic. you can't do a lot to get more control out of it. all you can do is use it within its limitations. can't set the shutter speed? learn to use the shutter speed it sets itself at. can't set the aperture? make good use of your limited DoF.
>> Anonymous
>>51977

My first experience posting here showed it's quite the opposite of friendly. Pretty much like every other section. Doubt I'll bother with this place again.

Anyway, thanks for the tips I guess.
>> Anonymous
>>51981

Door. Your butt. Way out. Something something.

HAY GUYZ HOW DOZE MY DISPOZABLE CAMERA TAKE TEH GOOD PHTOTOTOZ?? O RLY??
>> Anonymous
>>Pretty much like every other section.
we get too much posts like this, it's normal we get irritated when this gets asked over and over again.

ontopic?
it's a shitty camera alright. search the net to learn a bit so you can use it to it's fullest but limited possibilities.
>> Anonymous
I'm not sure if this one has a conversion lens thread, but there's some cheap teleconverters on ebay left over from the early cybershot line that are a neat addition for just $20 or so
>> dicesquirrel !Kxyzx09nhs
>>52011
Pointless gear questions all get answered this way, it's true. Hell, if someone had said, "Hay guyz, how does I use Leica M8?" they'd get the same annoyed response. Sometimes it pays to RTFM.

But to answer your question, to get better shots, look at better photos than yours. The real classics. Study composition, lighting, portraiture, all the creative aspects of photography. You're just NOT going to get a technically superb picture from your camera, either accept that or get a better camera. It doesn't stop you from making a well composed photo or one that tells an interesting story, though. You could even play to its strengths: small, unobtrusive, silent, huge depth of field, no one will think you're a professional photographer, etc. Go out and do some street photography, look for interesting juxtapositions or situations, shoot from the hip, etc.
>> sage Anonymous
>>51977
I think people are abusing you...
I'm with the first replier, but not at that harsh level...
People are trolling us I guess...
For example, I really doubt that this guy can't take the focus and shutter speed from a light source, then recompose and take the shot he wants, you know, he is posting in a photography board, he should know that right?
>> Anonymous
>>52068
not necessarily. i could post on /o/ but i know nothing about cars. it also depends on if the camera will let you do that. ive never used it so i dont know what it can do.
>> Anonymous
>>52011

seriously, can we get a permanent sticy with the link to dpreview.com and a rule saying that if anyone asks about point and shoot recommendations they will be banned?
>> Anonymous
wow, camera fags are the biggest fags of 4chan, and this thread is proof positive. somebody asked a beginner question, and everyone else acts all high and mighty and wants them banned or is just a general jerk.

I'm with OP. shove your cameras up your asses. maybe then you can't take all that CP with them.
>> slim !yE5LOsLjxQ
>>52100
i wasn't a jerk.

i came here not knowing crap about cameras either. i learned almost everything i know from /p/.
>> Anonymous
>>52101
And you call yourself a photographer? I myself started 10 years ago using light meters and all kind of lenses, then digital came and i bought my Mamiya back. you're the noob
>> Anonymous
>>52100
Not knowing is something, not trying and asking randomly is another different thing.
There is no "camerafags".
What you want me to do?
Lie to him, say like, whoooa take that cheap point and shoot, photochop a little and it will look like a top-grade SLR?
Or just say the truth? Your camera is a complete crap for any "artistic" purposes, it was made for taking pictures from your family and store in the necessary quality for you to remember the stuff you been thru...
But NO! I'm a camera fag!! You are the teacher around!! See, the guy doesn't know crap like we did some day, but how many of us came here complaining about manual focus on a camera doesn't even have manual shooting modes?
Now teacher, you'll have to say to him why, and teach me the camerafag, how to behave in a way of your liking.
Maybe you want some pats over your should and we telling you everything is just be fine. But we won't.
It's always a 50/50 chance of this being a troll, first anon took it, and I'm with him.

Now you can go and tell him how to use his manual focus and swap lenses on his p72, way to go bro
>> slim !yE5LOsLjxQ
>>52111
no, i never called myself a photographer...
>> ac
>>52111
Pics or it didn't happen.
>> thefamilyman
>>52111
i lol'd
>> BeastOfShame
for this camera, you need really bright light, or u need to use a stand if you want any decent pics without the flash. its not a bad camera for what it is. i had the p92 i think or a similar model.
>> Anonymous
>>52120
>>52068
>>51964
why do you type like this...
is it one of your habits?..
must you do it?..
I doesn't really matter...
This thread sucks. Camerafags all over the place. How is a beginner supposed to learn anything if you fags refuse to teach?
>> ac
>>52507
Well, I for one learned mostly by reading books on photography. 4chan isn't the one and only source of photography information in the universe, you know.
>> Anonymous
lol that wasn't my point. Of course, if you were serious about photography you would take a university course or something.

I was referring to posts like>>52068,>>52081and>>52101. Particularly>>52101that expressed that he had "learnt almost everything he knew from /p/". It makes me wonder how he learnt anything when you faggots are so full of shit.
>> ac
>>52512
>It makes me wonder how he learnt anything when you faggots are so full of shit.
Fail for assuming he actually learnt anything. ;)
>> ac
Not that I'm saying that slim doesn't know anything. ;P
>> ac
Disregard what i said guys, I'm just being as gay as usual :)
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>52517
Dammit. Guess I'm gonna have to start tripfaggin' it up in addition to namefaggin' it up.
>> ac !W2yv9wirYI
>>52520
Oh, don't start.
>> ac !!gSXI+/dqFyw
>>52520
>>52522
Go back to /b/ guys. /p/ is not the place you want to be.
>> ac
I won't use a tripcode. I know that the few people that know me will be able to recognize me.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
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Now it's just getting silly.
>> ac !!gSXI+/dqFyw
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>>52528
Your point being...?

Camera-Specific Properties:Image-Specific Properties:
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
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>>52531
My point is that I ABSOLUTELY CANNOT ABIDE SILLINESS.
>> Anonymous
saging tripfagginess on my /p/

ac please gtfo
not the real one
whichever is fagging things up
>> slim !yE5LOsLjxQ
no it's okay i basically don't know anything.
>> Anonymous
Stop being cunts guys
>> Anonymous
ac and slim both know fuck all and jump in on any thred they can to try and prove.....well fuck knows? they are wrong with mostly everything they say.
>> Anonymous
What the fuck has happened to /p/ in the last few days?

Goddamn.
>> slim !yE5LOsLjxQ
>>52589
eat dicks. i give good critique. and besides, AC is not a bad photog. i'm just starting out but who cares how good i am? we're all here to share photos and an interest in taking them. there's really no point to singling people out and starting flamewars. hell, i only tripfag so that some of the more experienced folk here can remember me so that if they ever have anything to say about my photos it'll be more helpful based on what they've seen me do before. no one's trying to prove anything dude. i'm usually nothing but helpful and constructive.
>> slim !yE5LOsLjxQ
>>52591
oops i didn't mean to bump. sage this shit.

i think what happened is that i got cranky and gave an overly harsh critique (that i'm not taking back because i believe in it) and now a bunch of anonymii are all riled up to take shots at me. i assume full responsibility for ruining /p/. it'll go back to normal soon. i'm starting a full time job. lol.
>> Anonymous
>>52592

lol you give good critique? lol. yeah you had a bit of a bender on those gravestones the other day though didnt you.

if you do want to develop you photography then dont listen to a thing ac has to say. he knows practically nothing and shits up threds when he calls ppl retards for HIM not knowing what they are talking about.
>> slim !yE5LOsLjxQ
>>52594
i dunno, he's helped me out a little.

anyway i think that my gravestone rant was pretty good stuff. and i generally do give really good critique. i'm much more of a writer than an artist.

ANYWAY. Sage.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>52594
Example?
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>52594
>he knows practically nothing and shits up threds when he calls ppl retards for HIM not knowing what they are talking about.
Example?
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>52594
>>52599
And you can't use this double-post, 'cause while it's massive failure, it's a different kind of massive failure than the one you were complaining about. So nyah.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>52594
Oh! Wait, were you talking about>>52537? Because that wasn't me.