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How to use the card camera, card camera using skills.

This kind of camera is called card machine because the appearance of the card machine is very petite and the thickness is much thinner than other cameras, which is very suitable for women. So it is called a card camera. This very fashionable card machine has many brands in the shopping mall, such as Casio series and Olympus series, all of which produce card cameras. This kind of card camera has high pixels and is easy to carry, but there are more and more consumers.

Use skills:

When pinching the card machine, check the current shooting environment and adjust the camera shooting parameters before shooting the composition. In addition, prevent fingers from blocking the flash. Card machines are designed in different ways, so consumers need to be flexible and find out the most suitable shooting method.

Shooting skill

macro photography

Compared with ordinary consumer-grade DC, the macro function of card machine is weakened, especially for those models with periscope lens structure, and the macro effect is undoubtedly discounted, but this cannot be the reason why we can't take good photos.

Attention should be paid to the control of exposure and shooting angle before macro photography with card machine. If possible, use optical zoom slightly to reduce the distortion at the wide-angle end, try to find a place to fix the camera, such as tripod and desktop, and set the camera to a forced non-flash state to avoid overexposure of the subject.

Landscape photography

Choose the scenery mode of the card machine and shoot with the wide-angle end of the camera. If zoom is used, the meaning of landscape photography will be lost. Pay special attention to the incident direction of light when shooting, and try to avoid shooting with large backlight angle, but in order not to produce halo phenomenon, the sunlight cannot be refracted to the lens. In some special periods, it is even necessary to manually adjust the white balance effect, such as cloudy days, sunrises, sunsets and other environments, which are all flexibly adjusted by the photographer himself.

Portrait photography

Most card machines do not have the function of adjusting the aperture size, so it is not easy to get the effect of highlighting the blurred background of people. But when we choose portrait mode, the camera will call the maximum aperture under the focal length according to the shooting distance. If the background is blurred to the maximum extent, be sure to shoot with a wide-angle end, and the photographer can move back and forth. When shooting a portrait, it is best to locate the metering point on the face, and if shooting a close-up of the face, it is best to focus on the eyes. If you take portrait photos indoors, you should also pay attention to the anti-shake caused by insufficient exposure of the camera, and decide whether to turn on the red-eye prevention function according to the intensity of ambient light.

Simplify the setting of shooting parameters

Many readers have encountered such problems: the card machine is not easy to be stable, and the film taken is easy to be fake. Automatic mode is usually the best shooting mode for DC. Based on the fact that the current card machine is getting smaller and smaller, the manual function is relatively weak, so users should first train how to take clear photos, and then gradually improve the shooting level. Speaking of anti-shake, not every card machine manufacturer can build an anti-shake system in the lens like Panasonic FX series.

Except in normal sunshine, most card machines will have jitter warning tips when shooting. It should be noted that it is not really hand shaking at this time, but due to insufficient exposure. At this point, even if the card machine is fixed on the tripod, the warning will not disappear. Moreover, some card machines on the market, such as Sony T7, are too light and thin to design the threaded interface of tripod at the bottom.

Then how can we ensure the clarity of the photos? It is recommended to use fully automatic mode! Flash is often used for indoor shooting. At this time, the camera will automatically increase the sensitivity, and the warning prompt of hand shaking will disappear. Next, clear photos will definitely pop up on the LCD. Of course, due to the improvement of ISO sensitivity, the picture will be slightly noisy, so there is no need to haggle over every ounce in this harsh shooting environment. It should be noted that for card machines with low flash index, users need to master the shooting distance, which will easily lead to underexposure of subjects with bright background after exceeding the flash distance range.

At night, the card camera can illuminate a perfect landscape through the optical viewfinder and can be easily put into the pocket after use. Although the card camera is small in size, it has a large screen and prominent operation keys, which is extremely convenient to use. Because it is easy to use, we'd better bring a universal charger in the wild and beautiful places. Card cameras should be recharged frequently, and of course, you can also buy spare batteries to use.