Keith said:

Check your camera for a setting that will allow you to check your picture,
after shooting, to see how it looks.
Taking pictures indoors with no flash is a shot in the dark.  You will have
to set your speed to as low as possible using a tripod, etc., and adjusting
your f-stop.  Doing this is a problem as a live band will have movement so
goodbye picture.

I would say that without a flash you will have problems indoors as all
shadows will be shown.

This problem is not just a digital related problem as you would get the same
with film.

Working with a digital, you will find, is very easy compared to film and the
quality at a proper resolution is as good, though, many filmists will argue
that statement.

I am sorry I cannot help with a solution, but, if getting the lights into
the picture is that important, keep experimenting with your manual settings,
if your camera will allow you to do that.  Keep trying and experimenting,
you don't need to worry about film costs.

By the way, are you having focusing problems, (that is, if you do not have
manual focusing)?   I ask because some camera's including my FUJI S5000 will
give me problems in a hazy, darker lighting indoors.

Good luck, let me know how you do.

Keith
kreb@sympatico.ca


"Starman" <rockerj_@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> When I take pics they always look awesome viewing them on the digital
camera
> but once downloaded they don't look the same ie: they've either very dark
or
> very bad. How can i download from the camera to look exactly as they do on
> the camer's viewing screen?
>
> The pics I take are of live bands and I don't use a flash so it won';t
> cancel out the colored lights, so I can understand why it would come out
> dark on the pic but my frusstration is why don't they look dark on the
> viewing screen instead of looking fantastic?
>
> also on a different note, taking a video on a digital, how do you take
sound
> videos, the ones' I take come out withour sound? Do I need a mic?
>
>