Settings for Canon Powershot SD750?

[plancton]

I just can´t get good reef pictures with this camera, specially corals, they always look blurry and the colors too, I´ve tried with underwater setting, macro, white balance, and still I don´t get it right.

Any ideas?

 

[ibanezgfx]

well you can do a custom white balance by turning it to that setting and basically calibrate it to the sand. Sometimes when i do this, it makes the rest of the tank like a greenish tint. I dont know what kind of settings that camera has, but if it has an AV or aperture priority, that usually works pretty well if you set it as wide as it can get. Bump the iso to about 200 or so, so that its not too grainy.
If there are no manual settings, just turn the flash off, bump ISO up a bit more and keep the camera absolutely as still as you can.

Hope this helps

 

[plancton]

Thanks, the problem was the ISO, it was to high, the best pictures I just got them using ISO80, macro, manual white balancing, biggest image size, 1.5mm zoom.

 

[nivram]

I think I have the same camera. Two things that help me is to place the lens up against the tank glass and to use the timer. I use the u/w setting in macro mode with flash off for most of my shots. I sometimes use manual mode with custom white balance in macro mode. But I find I use the first setting more.

Here's a pic I've taken with it.

If I do use the flash. I'll often place a piece of plastic over it to help diffuse the light.

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

I don't think your ISO being turned too high was causing your pictures to be blurry. High ISO almost always = less blur. Perhaps you were just more conscious about what was happening around you, taking care stabilize yourself more than before? ISO was almost positively not the culprit though.

 

[ibanezgfx]

try not to zoom, set it in macro setting, and crop the pics if you need to. zooming usually causes focus issues if in a macro mode, at lease in my canons

 

[juniorjose]

wow...this is a regular point and shoot camera?....
how do u get great quality?
i have an olympus FE-5010 right now, cant really get that great of a pic. what are some camera u guys recommend?