Very interesting. I was wondering how the camera knew which image to keep. I'm just getting into digital and have a lot to learn.
The Coolpix 3700 is Nikon's newest point and shoot. It has no shutter lag.
Walter
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On Thursday, February 26, 2004, at 02:40 PM, Elgenper wrote:
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:Walter,
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.
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?
