Recent content by erictjh

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    great place, nice scenery... lousy photos!

    use spot metering and AF on the main subject eh? will do ;) as for the CCD part... you reduce the CCD light to minimum... something to consider... do you leave it at min settings all the time? Panasonic forum joined!
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    Another FZ5 Owner Reporting!

    hi all! just got my FZ5 a couple of weeks back... just joined this forum 3 days back... loving my FZ5 and loving this forum as well! lots for me to learn... hope you guys are willing to impart some knowledge ;)
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    great place, nice scenery... lousy photos!

    thanks nightwolf75! i check out the site... basically, I should have let in more light.. right? also, i can control exposure on my camera.... pushing my exposure up manually by 1/2 to 1 stop would help as well? so that's for the metering part... and as for WB.. thanks again litefoot for...
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    great place, nice scenery... lousy photos!

    eheh yeah... i used auto WB... i only found out NOT to use auto WB after I came back from the trip... that was probably what caused my photos to look duller than it was supposed to? still lots to learn about photography and my camera, as arttl pointed out. thanks to arttl for the pointers! but...
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    great place, nice scenery... lousy photos!

    went to Koh Samui recently for a short trip brought my new Lumix FZ5 along hoping to take some nice photos sad to say, many of the photos didn't turn out as I expected them to... i'm still rather new to photography, but minus that fact... the photos taken were below my expectations...