New Tank Pictures

But usually it works better if I have the flash on. Its like something moving + no flash makes the images so blurry. But again I can try what you have said. At horse competitions and such that are outdoors I can get great action shots...but when its dark and no flash it dosne't work so well.

Also it seems if I have much of a zoom on it goes to 1/15.
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Like I said its a fine art. The lower the shutter speed the more chance of blurr (by either the camera moving or the object moving). On my cannon I can turn the flash brightness way down to kinda 'get the best of both worlds' sometimes. Not sure if the olympus flash is adjustable for output intesnity. Also when you zoom very much the aperature gets smaller so the shutter speed goes down. It usually also means you cant focus as close. For example the minum focal length on my camera at max zoom is like 20 feet, but in all the way wide its 3 inches. If I zoom just 2-3x its already at a minum focul length of 12 inches or so, and the apature is up half an f-stop or so. Try to get the camera as close as you can so you dont have to zoom. And best results are obtained with max quality setting (i.e 4 mega-pixels or whatever your max is) going up to a higher MP is like the best zoom you can get - you just have to crop or reduce it in a photo editing program. I know some who set thier camera down to 1/3MP so that its 640x480 for web posting, and thats probably fine but if you want lots of detail on a small object its best to take max quality pic then crop it out, and reduce it then if need be. FWIW I think learning a cemera isnt something you do very quickly, comes with lots of practice. The nice thing is with a digi cam you can take as many gosh darn pics as you want - doesnt really cost anything. Just keep the best ones and delete the rest. :)
 
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