Why is it that I can't take good night pictures with my digital cam?

United States
January 20, 2007 8:25am CST
It's a really good one, and day photos are great. At night time when I use automatic flash, it's too dark. If I use backlight it's too bright... how do I configure it to take good night time pictures as well? I love my camera and this is the only problem I'm having with it. Please help.
3 responses
@pelo26 (1552)
• Philippines
30 Mar 07
Lack of lighting is every cameras worst enemy. You can do a number of things, one is to set your cam into night mode, carry additional lighting and enable your flash too. I think camera developers should really look into this problem and provided us with good solutions in the future.
@feris0604 (303)
• Malaysia
26 Mar 07
Set your camera to manual mode. Then adjust the ISO to higher tahn 100. (Be reminded that high ISO can cause noise in your pictures.) You may take you picture now. Or, if you want, set it to the night mode. But, for night pictures, you have to do some exploration yourself with your camera.
@maryannemax (12154)
• Sweden
20 Jan 07
if you are using a digital camera, set it to "night mode". the quality isn't as great as those pictures taken during daytime. but atleast, with the night mode setting, your photos will still be crisp and clear.