How to take good fish pics with Olympus Stylus 8.1

[Caleb Kruse]

I am a noob when it comes to photography, and I have a question. First I have an Olympus Stylus 8.1, I know its not a great camera, but I want to take some good pics of my fish. For coral I set the ISO at 400 and I don't use the flash, and set it on Super High Quality. But when I take pics of fish, I can't set my ISO above 400, without it not letting me set it on SHQ. So what do I do? Or do I just go with low quality pics?

 

[gregr]

I think some experimenting with the different scene modes would be a good idea. For the fast moving fish try the sports mode- that will bias the settings towards a fast shutter speed. I've not used that camera (or read the manual) so I don't know for sure, but I suspect the camera will choose a high enough iso to get you decently fast shutter speeds in sports mode, and hopefully still in SHQ.