No wonder lah. I drink 3 cups of Nescafe a day. One in the morning to kick start my day, one after reaching the office while having the morning meeting, and one after lunch when I feel sleepy.

This is a great tip. Never have thought of this before. Thanks greyPJ for the tips.

This post has been edited by kelvinyam: Aug 19 2007, 05:56 PM

Oh.. I never tried using burst mode to get clear pics. I'll try it soon.

photo taking noobie here... wad is ISO? useful?

ISO=film speed=how fast the film catches light.

I was in a dilemma before IS or ISO. Fate has it if nobody wants to buy my f40fd by 23rd I'll stick to ISO then, ha.

There's also another factor: image quality at a given ISO setting.
Sure your camera can do ISO1600 or whatever, but are those pictures pleasant to look at?

ISO and IS complement each other. Better to have them both. In a perfect world, I'd go for higher ISO but with very low noise and no other side-effects of anti-noise algorithms (eg. softness) but until that day arrives, IS is already here to help you to better use those low to medium level ISO settings.

What about a film camera that have IS?

All this while whenever I heard IS = digital camera.

Is there such a thing?

For film cameras, the IS is in the lens...
Obviously you cannot move the film - not like today's CCD-shift anti-shake mechanisms.
To support their film customer base, and also to make good profit margins, Canon and Nikon keeps their IS or VR in the lenses for their D/SLRs.

thanks 4 ur explaining..means higher ISO, better image quality?

for me the higher ISO .. the worst image quality as the noise inside the picture will gonna kill you...
but sometimes you have no choice had to increase the ISO...