Do these card's need replaced after taking alot of of high res picture's? I have a 2g card ( for about a year) and I delete or format the card when I,m done taking pics for the day. I ask this because it seems like my photo's are progressively getting worse. I know i,m in focus with the pic's but can not get any quality shot's the last few day's when I know I should have. This photo of a Yellow Warbler really bum's me out, along with a few others I worked kinda hard for. :|
its a nice photo but?
Don't know. I use a 2.0 GG SD card (not HD) made by ScanDisk.
I've never formatted it, I just stuck it in my Panasonic FZ28.
After I've taken some photoes I just put it in the SD reader and plug the reader into my front USB port.
After I've finished looking, I simply delete all the pics on the SD card.
What camera equipment do you use?
Do you have another card to do some comparison?
Thanks for the reply bltefft. Ive takin about 2500 shot's on my current memory card, just wondering if memory card's loose anything (like quality) or whatnot when you use them that much. I guess I'm looking for a quick fix. lol I tend to use the optical zoom alot but never really had a problem with getting clear shot's until a couple week's ago.
Canon PowerShot s5is not great in low light but. I guess I can try the 32mb card that came with it, not going to get very many photo's but I,ll try it tommorrow but I hardly used that card.
This message was edited Jul 4, 2009 12:42 AM
I don't know which brand you use but I've always used Lexar and currently I've put well over 10K shots on the ones I use. I always reformat in the camera after I load the pics onto the computer or external hard drive. I have not experienced any problems that I know of. Maybe format in the camera and see if that helps.
Thx Met. Ill try that and see where it gets me. I dont mess with to much on the camera maybe something is set wrong.
Another possibility to consider...it seems like we all go thru spells where we just don't seem to be able to get the the shot for some reason. Maybe we are trying to hard or expecting more than the camera can do....or just not paying as much attention to the details as we should. If all else fail buy a new card and compare. I got my camera in November of 2007 and I have only ever used one card. I shoot and then delete up to 200-300 pics a day.
Met, I am just curious. Why do you re-format ?
I've taken 50,000 pics using several different CF cards and have never done any re-formatting. I take the photos, load them on my computer, delete the photos off of the card, and start all over again.
Am I missing something ?
Thanks.
Am I missing something ?
Me too....
Burd, let's look at the EXIF data for your first two photos. The Yellow Warbler photo was taken with a shutter speed of 1/200 of a second, aperture of f/3.5, ISO 200, focal length 400mm equivalent. I don't know what time of day you took the photo but the photo says it was taken at 4:29 A.M.
The second photo was shot at a shutter speed of 1/400 sec, aperture of f/3.5, ISO 125, focal length 400mm equivalent.
This one was taken at 5:21 A.M. according to the data.
I can't explain your thoughts about these photos as compared to your past photos. However, I would recommend that you try taking photos with a tripod and than hand-hold to see any noticeable difference. At a shutter speed of 1/200 of a second, I would never get a nice photo of a bird unless I was using a tripod. There could be a problem with the camera but I would lean toward camera movement, or subject movement. I suspect the time in the camera is incorrect and I would also suspect that you didn't have real good lighting.
Anyway, just an opinion. Perhaps some others can also chime in.
Sometimes if settings have gotten messed up, you can reset your camera to factory settings.....it will behave as it did when you first got it. Check your manual.
Did you have to lighten any of these shots? Or extremely crop any?
Sorry all was gone all day and a cousin of mine has a Nikon D60 and knowledge to go with it. My problem is I have a lot of bird knowledge but not alot of camera knowledge. My cousin pointed out like some of you said (hand held shot's) he showed me a better way to hold the camera and also explained that the shutter was open to far on some of my shot's. He then took my camera and showed me some of the setting's I can use to get better shot's, I guess I was a little timid with my camera "my first camera" I bought last July, other than that I had a camcorder I rarely used with like 2 megapixels "bla" lol. For year's I just used binoculars for my birding. I thank all of you for helping me. My cousin know's nothing of bird's and want's to get into birding, so this will work out for both of us. Once again thankyou all. I can build a computer but cant figure a camera out, heh I thought it would be easy, guess not.
That's kinda odd that she said that she was having problems... I've experienced the same exact problem over the past year with my camera? I've read what you guys have responded, and I will try the advice... I thought that I was going nuts? Nice to know that I'm not the only one. My camera use to take front page magazine shots, and slowly my camera takes very grainy, low quality pictures now. I don't know how to reset my camera, but I'll figure it out it's worth a try like was described... when you work extremely hard to get a GOOD picture and it doesn't turn out good, it's very very frustrating!
Lith and Nanny it's just a personal preference; it deletes all the pictures in a matter of 1-2 seconds from the card with only a couple clicks of the buttons, plus Canon recommends it. Also I do it in camera and don't let the computer do it, after the download, because I want to verify that all my pictures have been downloaded, plus backed up before deleting anything. Also I do it to maintain the integrity of my in camera file numbering system (i.e. keeps my numbering system in tack) for both cameras, especially when I use the card in one camera and switch to the other.
I've read where folks claim it eliminates that chance of a corrupted card, but no proof. There's probably half in the camp of reformating and half in deleting...personal preferenc that's all.
Lith good catch on the exif information. The computer I was using don't have the software to review the exif data...that software is loaded on the other computer. His shutter speed was too low, which he verified.
Nanny, you are right sometimes we expect to much from our cameras and I am guilty of that too. However, when something is wrong I check my settings because sometimes I change things for a certain photo and forget to change back.
Burd, just in case your cousin didn't point it out, try using the Av (Aperture priority mode) which allows you to set the aperture to what you desire; it also allows you to change the ISO settings - I suggest you start out with 400 ISO and between 2.8 and 5.6 aperture... as that is where most long tele lens ranges are set.
Well I am off to shoot the Ospreys today. I hope they are still there with the little ones. Wish me luck.
Good luck
This message was edited Jul 8, 2009 1:53 PM
Yeah...I delete the pics myself after they are downloaded to computer..I know that I have to have a little refesher course if I haven't used a setting for awhile!
Thanks for all the info. Meth, that's exactly was my cousin did point out both the aperture and ISO settings. I will be practicing with those on my yard bird's. Linth, all that info you got from my photo's, you have software for that? And yes the time was wrong on those, I reset the camera to default a few day's ago and never changed the time, its set now. Well i,m glad to get the responses on this thread and if it help's anyone else along the way I,m glad I did it, so next time when we risk "chigger bites" to get a shot, it will not be in vain. lol
Burd, the photo editing software that I use (Photo Explosion Deluxe) has that function. I had to do a Save As on your photo and save your photo into one of my folders. Then when I open your photo on my computer, I can access the EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) data.
Best wishes .......
NP Linth, THX! :)
Ok so today we played around with the ISO and Aperture settings and I think Ive improved some, check em out.
House Sparrow
Female House Sparrow
Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Robin
Now your rocking!!!
Close Up
Female Goldfinch... Thank's for the info all!
Almost forgot all were taken with tripod. I,m the one who need's a built in stabilizer! lol
I checked your exif for the male HOSP and its f4.5, 1/125, ISO 100 at 72mm. I was going to say you were pushing it but then I read where you used the tripod. Photos are much better but remember the tripod or IS won't stop blur if the bird moves with such a low shutter speed. Try upping your ISO, shutter speed or going to the lowest aperture to get really tack sharp pics (i.e. freeze the birds).
Also, if you don't have it, get yourself an editing software and you'd be amazed at what you can do the photos to enhance them, plus a lot of the basic editing software is free.
I have a program where I can just right click on the photo and it displays the exif info. but only if the photo was "saved as" and not "saved for internet" inwhich it strips the exif info; it's a free download.
If you want to know the name let me know.
Blag things worked out for you?
This message was edited Jul 5, 2009 11:36 PM
Will do on the setting's Met. I use photoshop for any editing, but would like to try that software, I like free stuff lol.
Trying one called Photoscape its read's the exif also.
You might try using Exif Reader. It is free ware, authored by Ryuuji Yoshimoto. Here is a link or you can just Google Exif Reader and get it from a number of locations. I first started using it back in 1999 and still have it on several of my computers, tho I don't use it much anymore since my photo editing software (ACDSee Pro) has exif reading included. He has updated it so it works with all Windows versions including Vista.
Dave
http://www.takenet.or.jp/~ryuuji/minisoft/exifread/english/
I will have to post the name of the software later as I am at work...but you can give the site Dave provided a try. I plan to check it out myself.
Thanks for the link Dave, I got the latest version from that page. Oh and to set the record straight teresa05 I am a male who's name is also Dave, however I did think about a user name of Aunt_Burd though lol. No hurry Met I appreciate it though.
Ok we played with the setting's today, and didn't fair too well. I really wished these pics had turned out lol. However they were nice profile shots. I set everything on the camera back to default and I,m ready for tommorrow. lol Met my aperture setting's were kept on the lowest it could go, but I had made some other adjustment's they may have caused the pics to be the way they are.
Goldfinch
I didnt do any editing other than resize them with photoshop.
Sparrow
GFinch
