Can you use this camera to take long exposure night photos? I was looking at another point and shoot that put an arbitrary limit on exposure lengths.
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No you can not do long exposure. I think the longest is 8 Sec. I wish it had longer exposure too but I Love the zoom.
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reveiws about the Canon Rebel point to underexposed pictures...is that a problem with Nikon as well..How well is the low light or night pictures in Nikon compared to Canon?
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I don't think it can capture video that far at night, or trip the motion sensor. During the day it can film that far, but I don't think it will at night. This works better at around 12-15 feet in darkness.
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Was it already night time? I found that it does not take good shots at night, they all come out blurry
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In my limited night shooting experiences, as always, it is best to play around with the settings. I still have nothing but trouble when trying to shoot fireworks, but as far as portraits go--all good. I prefer the candlelight setting for most low light environments and have had no problems. My focus subject is lit, but you can definitely still tell that it is a night time shot. As far as longer exposure subjects (i.e. fireworks, moon, etc), I still have trouble but I am guessing that it is my limited knowledge on the proper way to handle these situations, not the equipment. I am still thrilled with this camera several months later! In my limited night shooting experiences, as always, it is best to play around with the settings. I still have nothing but trouble when trying to shoot fireworks, but as far as portraits go--all good. I prefer the candlelight setting for most low light environments and have had no problems. My focus subject is lit, but you can definitely still tell that it is a night time shot. As far as longer exposure subjects (i.e. fireworks, moon, etc), I still have trouble but I am guessing that it is my limited knowledge on the proper way to handle these situations, not the equipment. I am still... » Read More In my limited night shooting experiences, as always, it is best to play around with the settings. I still have nothing but trouble when trying to shoot fireworks, but as far as portraits go--all good. I prefer the candlelight setting for most low light environments and have had no problems. My focus subject is lit, but you can definitely still tell that it is a night time shot. As far as longer exposure subjects (i.e. fireworks, moon, etc), I still have trouble but I am guessing that it is my limited knowledge on the proper way to handle these situations, not the equipment. I am still thrilled with this camera several months later! « Show Less
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Like others who have answered, yes its awesome for night shots and its not ridiculously expensive like the Nikon and Canon options. This is a manual focus lens vs. the Nikon/Canon but you will have to focus manually anyways since your AF won't work at night. That said, the full benefit of this lens requires a full frame sensor but I have used it on the crop sensors and its great there too, just not as wide a field of view but wide enough in IMO.
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this camera is great at night shots, long exposure with low ISO and you can make great pictures. check out 500px.com/tallicafan85 to see my pictures with this camera and my canon 60D. the HD video on the pen epm1 is fantastic, clear shots and fast auto focus, video at night never have tried it.
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Yes. It's excellent for doing long exposures like shooting stars and star trails, and for interval shots like time lapse:
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Yes, it has good capability to capture photo at night during video capture simultaniously. I was in a indoor function, my battery was down for my still camera. i took photo using this. it was good. But dont expect like a SLR one.
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No problem at all. I got this unit so I can leave the camera on the tripod all night while using a timer (intervalometer) for taking star/meteor shots.
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Yes this camera takes awesome day or night photos. In color is the part we enjoy. Others using night vision are ok but only a black and white type picture at night. We found the Deer seem to notice the infrared light more this has a bright flash but doesn't seem to scare them off. Hope this helps you decision.
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You can use a night mode portarit, it will help you capture the real atmosphere of a low light environment. When using such modes you should be aware that camera has to be very still, if not you can get blurry photos. Best solution for this is using a tripod.
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It takes fine pictures at night. It isn't SLR quality, and occasionally even my iPhone does as well, but where it really shines is under water. We dropped ours in 36ft off of the bow of our sailboat and it did fine, even after spending several hours down there until we could recover it (no dive gear on the boat and that is beyond my free diving capability). It is still a point and shoot with a small lens. I am happy with it, but it is far from a perfect camera. Our Canon SLR is superior, but that is to be expected. Its a great travel camera for those active moments where you can't take an SLR.
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The quality average. But what average means, you'd better find out yourself browsing the web for sample images. However, I returned the camera for the complete inability to shoot adequate NIGHT PHOTOS. This happened because the longest shutter time is of only 4 seconds and it isn't enough for good quality night photos. There is another setting that allows 15 seconds but that is too much, and between 4 and 15 seconds there is nothing.
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If you are referring to long exposure for star trails, this camera does not have a bulb setting, so it is limited to the standard shutter settings of up to 60 seconds, not a very long trail. I did see where one guy combined shots to create the trails, but with the multiple shots, the trails were dashes.If you are referring to time lapse video, this camera does have an automated feature that allows one to take photos at user specified intervals and turn them into a video at user specified frame rates. I have had fun with this feature, but I haven't done it at night.
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It's very good compact camera. It has pop-up flash. As all compact camera it's not specifically designed for night shooting. If night shooting is very important, go to the more powerful SLR cameras. They have bigger sensors and can use external flash
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I know your post is old compaired to my answer here but if you go to my webshots webpage you'll see some night shots I took with my Sony DSC-H2.http://community.webshots.com/user/Lenny56759