| You always thought that your digital camera can’t | | | | way you can get some good moving pictures. |
| take motion shots as the camera almost takes a | | | | |
| second to capture an image and the action is missed. | | | | All digital cameras, digital SLR cameras and |
| Thus you refrained from taking action shots and limited | | | | camcorders have a shutter speed control. Some have |
| your digital camera to taking pictures at gathering and | | | | higher shutter speeds like 1/8000 seconds while some |
| parties. | | | | have as low as 1/640. With a higher shutter speed you |
| | | | | can easily take good action shots but with the lower |
| Good photos are always taken by fine photographers | | | | ones it is a problem. With the higher ones you need to |
| and not the camera itself. Though your camera has | | | | also look out for the digital noise levels in the shot, you |
| umpteen shortcomings, especially when it comes to | | | | can take a shot with several shutter speeds and |
| capturing action shots, you can still master a few | | | | select one which serves your purpose. With low |
| techniques that will beg you to differ. Some common | | | | shutter speed cameras you can still take good action |
| flaws that digital cameras inherit is the shutter lag, | | | | stills by using the panning methodology. You need to |
| limited shutter speed, write (image saving) time of the | | | | follow the object you need to picture even after you |
| camera. | | | | have taken the shot. This will enable a sharp focus of |
| | | | | the object with a blurred background giving an |
| The shutter lag is the time taken by the camera to | | | | excellent picture. |
| capture a shot. Usually a film camera takes a photo | | | | |
| instantaneously in milliseconds, but digital camera takes | | | | Most digital cameras directly save photos onto the |
| almost a second to take a photo. Fast moving action | | | | memory card which consumes lot of time. If your |
| like speeding cars, cricket match or tennis game have | | | | camera has a multi-shot capability you can take series |
| continuous movement which is not possible to capture | | | | of pictures and then your camera saves them |
| the right shot if the shutter lag is one second. Thus you | | | | together. If your camera takes long enough to store |
| need to give time for the camera to get prepared for | | | | one picture it also takes times to shoot the next one |
| the shot. You can press the shoot button halfway, this | | | | and you may miss out on the action you want to |
| way it takes the required focus in place if it is on | | | | freeze. Thus the nest time you look out for a camera |
| automated mode. Then you click all the way it | | | | and intent to shoot action stills look out for the shutter |
| captures the picture with a reduced shutter lag. This | | | | speed, shutter lag and write camera time. |