Help with digital camera please!

[Jenny]

Ok, so we got a digital camera for Christmas. (We opened it early. :D I wanted some practice taking pictures before Christmas morning. ;) )

It's a good thing I did, cause I SUCK at taking pictures with it! :( Can someone give me some tips? They come out kind of fuzzy, some are too dark, etc. :(

[Jenny]

Sorry, it's a Kodak DX4330

[whitak24]

Originally posted by Jenny
We opened it early.
:nono: bad jenny! :nono:

:P

i don't have a digicam, so i don't know exactly what to advise, but i would say check the settings. see if you can open the f-stops up or something.....

[TERRIBLETOM]

Originally posted by whitak24

:nono: bad jenny! :nono:

:P

i don't have a digicam, so i don't know exactly what to advise, but i would say check the settings. see if you can open the f-stops up or something..... And make sure the flash is working correctly...

[faither]

Also, those Kodak's have notoriously slow lens' and shutter lag. Make sure you hold the camera steady -- until you see the image on the LCD. Often, you'll think you've already captured the image because you've depressed the shutter button but the camera still has to calculate distance, exposure and shutter speed. It definitely takes some work moving from film to digi.

You can find some real good help at the forums of dpreview.com (http://www.dpreview.com).

Good luck and enjoy.

[rajatQ2]

i had an old-sk00l kodak DC3200 camera (hated it) and i had some similar problems.

all the pictures would over-expose, from having too much flash, and many of them would come out blurry.

like faither said, the camera is slow to take pictures. just hold it super-steady and give it about 1-2 full seconds to take the shot.

Also, close ups DO NOT work with this camera. You have to make sure to take the pictures from a distance. I would just take them at the highest resolution and crop the good stuff.

Good luck. I'm sure your camera is better than mine, but apparently Kodak digicams arent so great.