I have my new 950 CoolPix

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I have my 950 Nikon CoolPix since yesterday and I am very please with it. It is as good as evrything I read before. One thing, I get red eyes with the flash is that normal or is there a way to get rude of it. I have a Macintosh PowerBook G3 266Mhz and to read the compact flash cards I bougth a PCMCIA adapter and it work's great to save the pictures on the computer no more cables to connect. Cyril (from St Martin French West Indies)

-- Cyril Levie (lapetitecour@powerantilles.com), April 29, 1999

Answers

The Red-Eye is caused by the placement of the flash too close to the lens. That's not something you can control - because that's where the manufacturer put it. Of course they could have put it far from the lens, but then your camera would have to be delivered in a shipping crate ;-) Some cameras have "Red-Eye Reduction" but all they do is flash a bit just prior to taking the picture, forcing the subjects iris to close and thus reducing the bounce from the back of their retina. I find this mostly obnoxious. Your best bet is to remove it in software. Replace the red pupil with very dark grey - and remember to put a small (couple of pixel) glint in each one, keeping them symetrically positioned (or it will look fake). If you can't figure it out I'll just have to come visit you in the West Indies....

Des

-- Dan Desjardins (dan.desjardins@avstarnews.com), April 29, 1999.


your 950 can also use an external flash, keep it far from lens. :)

-- benoit (foo@bar.com), April 29, 1999.

Hi Cyril, are you SURE the Coolpix 950 is in the Anti-RedEye mode? I don't get redeye that much in my pics. I say not that much because it all depends upon your subject also. Some peoples retinas respond to the redeye "pre-light" differently then others. Try it on different people and see if the redeye is apparent in all of your flash people pictures. Good Luck!

-- Jameson Wong (thunderpic@lanset.com), November 18, 1999.

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