Opps sorry about that, I just sat up that Flikr account the other day and still don't know much about it. I think I have changed it to public now.
Please forgive my ignorance but what is the EXIF? and can I see it? Is it like the display that shows on the camera when you view the photos you have just taken? Shows the histogram, ISO setting, F stop....
On this little camera, in the auto mode, I have a choice of auto, 50, 100, 200, or 400 for the ISO.
It does have an "S" mode in which I can change the shutter speed manually. I have tried that a couple times and haven't got it right yet. Last game I set it at 1/500 and the pictures came out black. There is, in that same mode, another setting I can change. I'm sorry I don't know for sure what it is called but it has a little box with a + and a - in it and it adjusts the lighting (I think). I took several shots with it sat at 1/500 and played around with the other setting from +2.0 to -2.0 and that seems to have had no effect on the pictures, still black.
In the "S" mode I can change the shutter speed from 60" to 1/1600.
I am sitting on one end of a long skinny kitchen in which the sun (what little we have today) is coming in the window, the light on this end of the room burned out and I haven't got up to change it yet, and the light on the other end of the room is on. So, poor lighting here too.
I have zoomed the camera all the way out and pointed it out into the hall at the other end of the room at a door about 20 feet or so away. I have taken several shots changing the shutter speed each time starting at the 1/1600 and going down to the 0.5" where I stopped. At the 1/1600 end the pictures were black and lightened up as I went down but the further down I went the pictures became blurry from the slight jerk of the camera when you press the shutter button. Till at 0.5" the resulting picture is nothing but blur. Even though the pictures lightened up as I went down they were never clear and varying degrees of out of focus with lots of noise.
The camera also has an "A" setting where I can adjust the f stop (I think that's the right word for it). When zoomed all the way out I have a choice of f7.4 or f5.1. Zoomed in one step I can choose f6.9 or f4.8. You get two different choices with each step that you zoom back in until it is all the way back and you have a choice of f2.8 or f4.0.
The last mode the camera has is a manual mode "M" It will let me adjust the f stop and shutter speed both and choose from auto, 50, 100, 200, and 400 for the ISO.
Add all that to the choices in white balance and free, spot, or multi for the focus and choice of how many shots to take with one press of the shutter button (single shot, normal continuous, high speed continuous, flash continuous, zoom continuous, and multi continuous that takes something like 25 mini shots with one press of the button (like a film strip) and you have a ton of confusing settings to choose from!
Any and all help will be greatly appriciated. It seems I get ok enough results on close ups and outdoor photos it's just the further away shots and the indoor shots that are frustrating me.
I am thinking about getting a FujiFilm FinePix s700 but I'm sure I'll need to learn just as much as I do with this little pocket Casio.
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