How to turn a compact digital camera into a SLR?
I own a Canon PowerShot SD870 IS Digital ELPH Camera. How should I play around with the settings (ISO, etc.) to make it take incredible, crisp photos with low noise in low-light settings, much like a digital SLR (Nikon D3100 for example)?
Added (1). What I'm asking is: How do i make my compact digital camera take high quality pictures in low-light settings much like an SLR? Serious responses ONLY, please…
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Well, take a photography class… Shutter speed, aperture, ISO takes too long to explain here…
crisp pics with low noise: ISO100
and if you want high quality pics in low light, heres a recommendations: go to A/Av mode and set the f/stop to the widest possible(f/2.8 or 3.5) and use ISO 400 or 800… You can also use a tripod…
The only way is to use a tripod
you have no actual control over shutter speed, ISO, or aperture. That, coupled with the fact that it is a point and shoot camera with a tiny sensor, you can bet on noisy pictures in low light.
It is not possible. Especially low light performance is a function of the sensor size. Given that the typical DSLR has a sensor 15 times larger than a compact camera, how do you suppose that a compact camera could ever come close to a DSLR.
And have you seen the size of DSLR lenses? How could a compact camera ever have optical quality such as those?
The reason that DSLRs are still sold today is that compact cameras can't match their performance. What you are asking is not possible.
You can't. However, you CAN put in the necessary time with the manual & take a class or two to master the craft. Point & shoot or DSLR doesn't matter. An experienced, well trained photographer can take great photographs with a $100.00 WalMart special. If the person behind the lens doesn't have knowledge, expertise, & experience, he can make a $25, 000.00 Hasselblad look like a Kodak brownie.
A poor craftsman blames his tools.
It's all in the light. If you take a picture at the right angle under very good lighting conditions, you can get very high quality photos. That means taking pictures in low light is out of the question.
You're asking for the impossible.
SLRs can only take low-light shots with wide aperture lenses (f/2 or wider), or with long shutter speeds on a tripod. Without these, even an SLR is as helpless as a compact in the dark.
Your PowerShot has a tiny image sensor, and can't open its aperture wider than f/2.8 (and only when you are fully zoomed out). Your only hope is a tripod and long shutter speed.
Your PowerShot has a secret weapon in its low light arsenal. It's called a built-in flash.