Digital camera flashOn a camera you have a number of digital camera flash settings which will dictate how your camera will light the subject when you take a photo. Ensure that the camera is set to record (ready to take photos), not playback.
First you need to locate the digital camera flash button on your camera. The universal symbol for flash is shown on the right of this paragraph. The location of this button varies from camera. Above are two examples. When you find this
button on your camera press, it repeatedly and watch the
The main settings are: Auto flash
This setting tell the camera to use its inbuilt technology to decide if it should flash or not, depending on the surrounding light. This is the best setting for the novice camera user. Red eye reduction
This setting tells the camera that the subject is in a darkened area and that the iris of the eye is likely to be wide open. A flash will reflect off the eye giving the red eye effect. To avoid this the camera will give a multiple burst of light which will cause the iris to close thus reducing or eliminating the red eye effect. Be careful to warn your subjects to wait until all the flashing is finished. Otherwise, they may turn away after the initial flash and not be facing the camera for the flash which coincides with the taking of the photo. forced flash
This is where the camera will flash every time, regardless of light. This is useful in areas of medium to poor light no flash
This is where regardless of lighting the camera will not flash. It is useful in places where flash photography is not allowed camera playback and record modes
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display screen. The
symbols below will appear in rotation. They will usually retreat to the corner
of the display after a few seconds. The icon in the corner indicates the current
flash setting. You may not have all of these options or you may even have more
than these ones.
