Hi allI am new to photography and hav just watched some amazing videos on smoke photography.  For this you need a flash gun and I was wondering whether anyone could tell me which one I would need for my camera - S2750HD and where would the best/cheapest plac be to buy one. Deb

Hi allI am new to photography and hav just watched some amazing videos on smoke photography.  For this you need a flash gun and I was wondering whether anyone could tell me which one I would need for my camera - S2750HD and where would the best/cheapest plac be to buy one. Deb

It seems as if a XS-1 is very expensive ?I have at the moment a HS20EXR I am quite happy with it but I wandered if anyone had changed to the XS-1 and if they think it was the right move ?Is there a massave difference between the two with the bigger senser ?Any comments welcomeBrian

It's snowing again, so instead of getting depressed I decided to do some more experimenting with manual settings. Attempted to capture the snow flakes, I just stepped out my front door so the setting isn't anything special. I'm attempting to figure out how to get away from auto, this is shutter priority AE 1/4000, the camera used F5. What do you think?

I've finally taken the plunge and upgraded my camera to a HS10, and am genreally new to "technical" photography.I was wondering if anyone could tell me how you get the solid white effect when taking photos of flowing water?? Many thanks in advnaceA

I replaced my "Blue" with one I took today.  No processing.http://www.myfinepix.co.uk/competition/entry/583582

I have recently bought the HS30exr, and according to the website and a guy in the shop you can set the shutter speed to as slow as 30 seconds, to take photos of the stars. however i can only seem to get mine to go to 4 seconds.Any tips?Regards Alistair 

Hello, I am a recent owner of a HS30 camera. I was using EXR AUTO as a general purpose mode, but I find image quality not quite good.  Even plain AUTO produces sharper images (daylight pictures), EXR AUTO pictures lack detail when compared with AUTO on close examination, and I see a lot of artifacts (I compare HS30 images with an older Sony DSC H10 camera images, which is an 8Mb 10x super zoom, and DSC H10 have more detail). Should I avoid EXR Auto mode? I want sharp, well exposed pictures. Or should I swith to FINE mode?

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My camera is a FINEPIX S4000.What is the best Mode and settings for shooting Telephoto images?

I'm wondering which are the ideal conditions i.e lighting conditions,subject (moving or stable), indoors, outdoors etc   for each one of these modes. When do we have to choose EXR- high ISO & Low noise and when Adv.Mode Pro low light?

I took this at a club party last night and have been wondering how to crop it. Ideas would be appreciated.I have cropped it, below, but would like some other ideas.