Need help with P&S camera and lowlight/night shots.

[Lightsped]

I know most everyone here probably has megabuck cameras, but I do not.



I have a FujiFilm J10. It is a affordable, simple, point and shoot digital camera. The camera does quite well in daylight, but if I try low light or night shots the camera is horrible. The photos come out very blurry and with bad color. It also takes forever for the photos to be made in low light or night shots. I have tried all of the mode settings and can not find anything decent. Below is a link to the specs as I am not really sure what I am doing wrong. Any help is appreciated. Thanks
http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/j/finepix_j10/specifications/index.html

[DinanM3atl]

For the most part P&S cameras simply cannot do fast action motorsports and definitely not fast action in low light. It does not have the high ISO performance and shutter speed needed.

Even the best P&S from Canon G9 and now G10 have trouble in these conditions.


You are going to have to try to see how the camera performs on ISO 800 and ISO 1600.

You are going to need to see how faster you can go on the shutter speed and see what results you can get. A shallow depth of field is going to be your friend.

Set on manual and go to ISO 400 or 800. If you can manually set the aperture go to f/2.8 and get the shutter around 1/160 or maybe a tick faster. See what you come up with.

At these settings though I am using my Canon 430ex flash so you may need ISO 800 and 1600 and slower shutter speeds. Be prepared for LOTS of noise.

You can get good shots using a tripod on an item not moving.

[Mr. Clean]

low light p&s action shots is just a realm that you will most likely have to avoid unless you get a better camera. p&s's are for moms and pops and high school kids that don't care about the quality of the picture necessarily, just catching the moment is #1 on the list.

good luck with messing with the settings but tripod and high ISO will get you your best results as long as nothings moving.

[mushroom_toy]

Like others have said hopefully you can set the iso manually. I could on my old sony p&s but i dont know about the fujifilm.

[james]

page 56 dude

https://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/j/finepix_j10/pdf/index/finepix_j10j12_manual_01.pdf