Settings & Features of 35mm Point & Shoot Cameras

"Hi! I am Fred Norwood on behalf of expertvillage.com. In this segment I am going to explain some of the different settings that are available on point and shoot 35 mm film cameras. To start taking pictures with the 35 mm point and shoot camera, first you will have to turn it on, you’ll have to locate the on and off button on your camera on this particular model, it is right here. When you turn the camera on it will open up the lens cover and extend the lens. Once you are done turning the camera off, closes everything back up. Most point and shoot cameras offer different types of flash settings. There is one setting that is available for red eye, which is used when the subject is a person and they are usually in a darker area. Setting the camera to red eye flash reduction will pop a small flash before you take your picture, which closes the subject’s iris and reduces the red eye in the picture. There is also a setting on here if you choose to take pictures in a bright sunny area and you need to get more flash on the subject. In bright sunny areas the camera will be full by the amount of sunlight on the background and will not fire the flash automatically, which will leave your subject under-exposed. Some of the other settings include a timer, which you can set usually for 10 seconds to take the image so that you are in it. What you will do with this is set the camera up usually on a tripod, push the timer button and then get in front of the camera before the 10 seconds is up at which time it will take the picture. These are your zoom settings. Pushing the zoom one way or the other will make the lens extend every track to put you closer or farther from the scene. These are the various settings available on the point and shoot camera."