Re: Back to Basics: Camera Holding

[Elgenper <elgenper@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had an older Coolpix once with the same feature.  To find the 
"sharpest" shot, mine just looked at the JPEG file sizes, on the theory 
that a more detailed picture can´t be compressed as much as can a 
fuzzier one.  Obviously this criterion is somewhat approximate, but it 
did work decently in practice.

Apart from one or two tests, I never used it; if shutter lag for the 
first exposure is already close to unacceptable, how about eight 
frames, where the preferred one might come anywhere in the series?

Per Öfverbeck
http://foto.ofverbeck.se


2004-02-26 kl. 19.47 skrev Achal Pashine:

> > Speaking of taking several shots in a row:
> >
> > My daughter's new Coolpix 3700 has a feature called best shot 
> > selector.
> >   It allows you to just keep the shutter button depressed and it will
> > automatically click off up to 8 frames, one after the other, then it
> > will erase all but the sharpest frame.
> Walter,
> that's a cool feature. But, the sharpest 'picture' may not be the best
> 'image'. I often find that, I like images which have just the right 
> spot of
> sharp highlighting the most interesting part of the image..
> I do not know much about Coolpix, but what happens if you shoot 
> wide-open,
> where does it look for the sharpest part?