sensitivity of camera to tilt

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anoop - 23 Mar 2006 04:15 GMT

I have a Sony DSC-W1B. I've owned it for almost 2 years now.
I have found that the quality of the picture that it takes is
extremely sensitive to tilt. For example, when taking a picture of
people in the car, tilting the camera a certain way would cause
the flash to go off; a slight difference in tilt would cause it to
not use the flash. In general, the "brightness" of the picture
can vary quite significantly with camera tilt.

A couple of questions:

- Is this much sensitivity to be expected? I had never played
with camera tilt with my film point and shoots.
- If it is, how do I control it so that I get a well exposed shot?
What kind of feedback can/should I be looking for from the
camera before I actually take the shot?

Because I can't seem to be able to control this, the quality
of my pictures is somewhat random. Sometimes they are
simply superb, and sometimes they are so bad, I wonder if
I should shop for something else.

Anoop

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Whiskers - 23 Mar 2006 13:42 GMT

> I have a Sony DSC-W1B. I've owned it for almost 2 years now.
> I have found that the quality of the picture that it takes is
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> Anoop

If it really is camera posture that affects exposure and picture quality,
then I would suspect a fault in the camera. However, operator error needs
to be eliminated before blaming the camera. Is it set to 'spot metering',
for example?

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anoop - 23 Mar 2006 15:21 GMT

> If it really is camera posture that affects exposure and picture quality,
> then I would suspect a fault in the camera. However, operator error needs
> to be eliminated before blaming the camera. Is it set to 'spot metering',
> for example?

Interesting that you ask. In the specific instance that I mentioned in
my earlier post, I was in a programmable mode with spot metering on.
However, I have noticed the problem even without spot metering on.

Anoop

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Whiskers - 23 Mar 2006 17:43 GMT

>> If it really is camera posture that affects exposure and picture quality,
>> then I would suspect a fault in the camera. However, operator error needs
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> Anoop

I suggest that you analyse what settings you make, what those settings are
meant to make the camera do, and how what you do interacts with those
settings. The camera doesn't know wht you meant to do or what you hoped
to happen, it only knows what you do to its knobs and buttons ;)) You
know that you /can/ get good results with it; see if you can work out what
you did right on those occasions.

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