LMAO at you two......well maybe I am just using the car as a cover for what I will really be taking pics of. :wink:

aHem http://messenger.msn.com/MMM2004-11-...cons/50_50.gif

I had a spare 10mins before work so I took some shots of moving cars (no nice ones, sorry). I think they turned out pretty good, a little on the grainy side though. :?

This one was taken in 'Sport' mode and the shutter speed was 1/270:

http://img138.exs.cx/img138/4784/r00100822hs.th.jpg

'Sport' and 1/410:

http://img138.exs.cx/img138/5237/r00100830wx.th.jpg

'Continuous' mode, took a few pics consectutively....this was the best, 1/290:

http://img139.exs.cx/img139/1936/r00100841mn.th.jpg

The fastest shutter speed I managed was 1/760 when I had it in 'Normal' mode but set ISO to ISO 800.....so maybe this is the best, but I only took one pic at this setting of a group of cyclists (who were going slower then the cars):

http://img134.exs.cx/img134/6348/r00100876yf.th.jpg

oh and here is the only decent car I saw, the new Golf and it was movng too....can't remember the settings since I deleted it off the camera:

http://img138.exs.cx/img138/1988/golf6cv.th.jpg

you were supposed to take pics with motion blur ?

Uhm.. they are better indeed, and the grain isn't too bad. if you want less grain, you have to reduce the ISO setting if possible.. probably all the "preset" modes also modify it to be able to raise the shutter speed... I always let it at 50 ISO.
Anyway even at 800 ISO, the grain is quite good! With my camera, already at 200 the pic is not worth to be posted

if you actually want cool trailing effects set the shutter speed around 15 to 30th of a second...the background will be somewhat blury while the car will be sharp...btw, this is while you're panning the shot...btw, remember to adjust yur aperature so you don't over or underexpose the pic, just look at yur meter...

btw...i'm not a huge camera freak, but i work at my cousins' camera store...adencamera.com...please feel free to check it out, we do international shipping...

Badmihai can probably give you some great tips as well.

sorry tt, what do you mean by "grain"?

You know, when a picture isn't "clean" but full of little "grains".. you will understand looking at the following ones:

GRAINY
http://img145.exs.cx/img145/2572/lam...h0183cg.th.jpg http://img145.exs.cx/img145/5213/mit...ovii0wq.th.jpg

CLEAN
http://img145.exs.cx/img145/1981/fer...m0641hj.th.jpg http://img145.exs.cx/img145/9541/ham...i0037wa.th.jpg

So to take cleaner images wich settigns do you need to move?... for example when its darker i use higher ISO speeds and when its sunny i use lower ISO.. any other recomendations?

example:

this was my first try, i used lower ISO speed about 50 or 100 and this
http://img23.exs.cx/img23/1659/prueb...40086ty.th.jpg

is was my second try i used 400 ISO i think looks clean to me
http://img93.exs.cx/img93/5580/prueb...40056mx.th.jpg

ISO IMO should always be set at the lower possible value! You should work with shutter speed and aperture. And it's impossible to give precise values sinceit changes every day and with every camera. You just need to do some tests and you will get the hang of it for your particular camera in a given light.

take a look at my pictures please? :D

First of all, this is a topic about pictures of moving objects :D
Second, ISO isn't realted to speed. The shutter has a speed (the it stays open and let light in), ISO is more like sensibility to that light, but raising ISO, although you can get "better" pics with scarce light, you lower the quality

IMO in your two pics it is the other way around: the second was with ISO set lower that the first one because usually the higher the ISO, the mor ethe grain in the pic.

Anyway, for that kind of picture you shouldn't change the ISO.. since you could use a tripod, you just set the shutter speed to an higher value.
I do the same when I have my tripod (like in the pics for the Ferrari auction): slow shutter (1 sec) and deep field of focus (F8.0).. ISO is to be raised when you are really desperate for more light

oh sorry :(

thanxs for the advice :)

actually, for those pictures...depends if you want more background or less background for a portrait...for more backgrounds in a portrait, you might need a tripod, and set the aperature at the highest amount(smallest number on the readings) and set the shutter speed at a regular rate perhaps 30th of a sec, depending on the light situations...if you want less background set the aperature at higher than usual (4-5.6 is normal usually), then set the shutter speed at a low speed so you can balance out the amount of light that's going in...remember to use the histogram of the meter to see if you need more aperature or less or more speed or less...i tend to like to have a lil bit of a underexposure...

btw...iso settings aren't that much of a use to me and i think its usually no need to change the settings...iso i usually shoot at is 400...