This blog is my diary into my new found love of photography. Whether you are or are not a photography buff too, I hope you will leave comments. Any suggestions or counsel is appreciated as I am a novice and trying to learn. I am happy that you've joined me along my journey...

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Customizing Your Camera Settings

Once I found out where to find controls on my camera, what they did and how to use them I discovered I had new question. Were the factory default settings the best settings? What did I need my function button to do, how much of an Ev step was best, did I need to adjust the picture mode settings? What settings had professional photographers who had used my camera determined made the best pictures and worked the smoothest. I discovered that they indeed chose to change many of the factory default settings in the Olympus 510. For example, by setting the noise option to "off" I found I had a much better picture. It is really only needed if the ISO is cranked up really high and then only in the "low" setting.

http://www.wrotniak.net/photo/43/e510-sett.html#LOCKRECOM is a great site for customising your settings for the Olympus E-510 or E-410. The web site also has a detailed review of the cameras which I found very helpful. There are other cameras in review there as well.

Once I lived with the suggested settings for awhile I then tweaked them a little to my liking, but pretty much found the suggestions to be spot on.

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