TOO QUIET!!!

[whitecree]

Depends what your wife shoots you with.

[Dry Heat]

Nancy,
Just a thought. On my Nikon the automatic focus feature doesn’t work when the lens is in macro mode. In macro you have to focus by moving the camera or adjusting the focus of the lens manually.
If the camera is in automatic mode increasing the light might help, more light closes down the lens and increases the shutter speed. Faster shutter speed would help with the shakes and stopping the lens down will increase the depth of field. This should increase the sharpness of the image.
Good luck, Ed

[Nancy Goff]

er -- thanks, Ed. This Canon doesn't have an actual automatic focus feature....it's always asking to be told where it is -- indoors, sunshine, foliage, something.
I've never seen a shutter speed on the thing. Am I missing it somewhere?
And I don't have the shakes except when I'm using the wretched camera.
You know -- the very first digital camera I had was a wonderful, sweet little thing - point and click. Oh, how I loved that camera ~sigh~

[Dry Heat]

Nancy, Isn’t it a point and shoot or through the lens type of camera? If so it has automatic focus except when it is in the pure manual program. If it has a shutter priority and aperture priority program that’s where you would actually be able to set the shutter speed. When you point it a subject doesn’t it bring it into focus when you partially press the shutter button? I would guess that it has at least 2 programs which is what it is asking when it, wants to know where it is “indoors, outdoors, foliage etcâ€

[Nancy Goff]

Ahhhh--- I see, er, I focus a bit of what you're saying. When I want to take a photo I do have to press the big, shiny, blank, button just HALF the way down .... until a GREEN square appears around the main part of what I'm looking at. Then I press it all the way down.

I don't even know where the manual IS. My husband, bless his heart, hides manuals. He knows if I try to read them I'll get too confused, lose my temper and ........... well .....................

He understands things like manuals but he won't/can't even paint the living room walls

[whitecree]

Maybe he needs a manual?

[Nancy Goff]

Nah -- he's got me and I'm one heckuva' swell painter. I can even mix the paint.

[whitecree]

Attagirl! You mix it, then tell him where to apply it!