Type Of Camera Used For Taking Fish Pictures

[Mjay~Fish-Freak]

i was wondering what shutter speed, what megapixel, what kind of camera ie. digital SLR, non digital etc people use to get the best results taking pictures of there fish and aquariums, do you have any tips or tricks to get a photo of your fish so it's not blurry. do you do anything to the lighting in the room? or use flash?

sometimes you can see reflection and most of the time the fish are blurred, occasionally i will get one thats decent. am i doing anything wrong? or should i get a better camera( currently have a Kodak EasyShare DX7590 5.0 megapixel camera) or is it just a matter of taking hundreds and hundreds of photos?? i would love to be able to share 'decent' photos on these forums and some of you guys have stunning tanks and awesome photography skills

any help or advice is much appreciated!

cheers Micky Jay

[PeteFromTassie]

The three best tips I can give you (and I'm no expert) are:
1)to work out how to turn on the Macro function. This will allow your camera to focus up close.

2)Also, half depressing the button to focus the camera on something stationary helps. RE: Focus the camera on a rock or the substrate, then move the camera (while holding down the button half way) onto the fish and depress. With a bit of practice it'll help heaps with a point and shoot! ;-)

3)Supressing the flash will make the colours of the fish look way more natural, but it decreases the shutter speed, so the photos will generaly be blurrier!

The other thing I'll say is that in the 3 years I have taken fishy photos with my Fugi point and shoot I still have to take about 15 to get an average to good shot! :-( It's just the way it is till you spend some coin on a good camera I think!

Cheers,
Pete.

[Marc]

Hi Micky Jay, welcome to the whole other world that is Aquarium Photography (that I'm also discovering first hand!).

There is already a thread with some great pointers and links here on TFT: http://www.thefishtank.com.au/forum/index.php?showtopic=2877

[Mjay~Fish-Freak]

Thanks marc and pete!! the link was great marc and so were the tips pete!!

cheers