Which camera for night photos < US200?

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"Brett" <no@spam.net> wrote in message
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>I have a Kodak DX3500 digital camera. It does fine for me except the night
>photos. If there isn't much light available, the photos come out mostly
>dark. The flash doesn't help because the subjects are far away - various
>city photos for example. I believe a longer exposure will take care of
>this situation. Is that correct?
>
> Which cameras will take good night photos and sell for under US200,
> perhaps even on eBay? If not for under US200, what else might be
> available that doesn't go to much over that price?
>
> Thanks,
> Brett
>
Most cameras with manual settings for shutter speed and aperture and a
tripod socket.

The manual setting is necessary because the exposure for night photography
can be very long.
Therefore you need the camera on a steady tripod.

Here is one page on the subject.
http://www.photoxels.com/tutorial- [...] raphy.html

If you do a Google search for "night photography tutorial" without the
quotes, you will find many web pages on the subject.

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> You probably can find one of these on ebay - Oly 2100uz.
>
> Only 2 megapixel, but it's night capabilities are pretty amazing for a
> digicam, not to mention the 10x image-stabilized optical zoom and its
> stunning 2 mp photos (easily good enough for 8x10). There is a user
group -
> occasional used ones for sale) here:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Oly2100/messages/ (you'll have to sign up
for
> Yahoo groups.) Users there are pretty good at knowing what has similar
> attributes.
>
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> "Brett" <no@spam.net> wrote in message
> news:mNOdnS7fms16tIbfRVn-hA@rcn.net...
> > I have a Kodak DX3500 digital camera. It does fine for me except the
> night
> > photos. If there isn't much light available, the photos come out mostly
> > dark. The flash doesn't help because the subjects are far away - various
> > city photos for example. I believe a longer exposure will take care of
> this
> > situation. Is that correct?
> >
> > Which cameras will take good night photos and sell for under US200,
> perhaps
> > even on eBay? If not for under US200, what else might be available that
> > doesn't go to much over that price?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brett
> >
> >
>
>