cupra wrote:

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Simon Brown typed:

Hi All,

Just bought a Minolta DiMAGE Z3 and am very impressed.

High resolution, My balcony
http://www.hb9drv.ch/PICT0002.JPG
Standard resolution, Laax
http://www.hb9drv.ch/PICT0042.JPG
http://www.hb9drv.ch/PICT0048.JPG

I'll have a poodle with me over Christmas / New Year so will be
walking in the mountains rather than skiing so will have the camera
with me.

Anyone got any suggestions or hints for using a digital camera when
the sun is shining in winter? With my SLR I had filters and stuff,
don't seem to exist in the digital world.

BTW it eats batteries, thank goodness for rechargeables.


I seem to get away with auto settings most of the time, using the fill flash if necessary when it's really sunny!

Sometimes the auto white balance leaves snow with a little blueish, but I use Photogenetics to clean that up later. (Fuji F700)
With my old (very old) film camera I always over exposed skiing shots by
a stop or two and this gave the snow a more enticing colour, white as
opposed to grey, but I haven't worked out how to do it with the didital
camera and end up doing it software later. Is it just my Olympus C990 or
is it a bit tricky to get action shots just at the right time with
digital cameras. I have to press the shutter realease about 1/2 a second
before the photo takes.

John