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<blockquote data-quote="guitz" data-source="post: 386735" data-attributes="member: 35202"><p>I have a new D3200 that I bought with the two lenses kit from BestBuy...I take lots of pictures of guitars for selling and have always used my trusty Panasonic Lumix ZS1, truly easy point and shoot...While it gets reasonable good images (though not as razor sharp clarity as I'd like) for blackground / colorful foreground pics, ..like a sunburst guitar on a black velvet material background with a 3 tripod lighting source , it seems to struggle with white background material and black or dark guitars...it looks dark and undetailed...maybe I need to crank up more lighting, but the images look so good with the black backgrounds...anyway, I am so new to the D 3200, that I don't know what the optimum settings would/should/could be for the white backdrop - dark guitar pics....I tried a few tests using multiple settings but quite honestly , the results weren't any better than with my Panasonic, and were actually worse!...The cool thing with the Panasonic, is there is a simple 'Exposure' setting that you can click to increase the brightness while snapping pics, that helps. Maybe the D 3200 has something similar while taking the pic? ...I'm hopeful that the ultimate solution doesn't involve forking over big bucks for a low light source lens or something..</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="guitz, post: 386735, member: 35202"] I have a new D3200 that I bought with the two lenses kit from BestBuy...I take lots of pictures of guitars for selling and have always used my trusty Panasonic Lumix ZS1, truly easy point and shoot...While it gets reasonable good images (though not as razor sharp clarity as I'd like) for blackground / colorful foreground pics, ..like a sunburst guitar on a black velvet material background with a 3 tripod lighting source , it seems to struggle with white background material and black or dark guitars...it looks dark and undetailed...maybe I need to crank up more lighting, but the images look so good with the black backgrounds...anyway, I am so new to the D 3200, that I don't know what the optimum settings would/should/could be for the white backdrop - dark guitar pics....I tried a few tests using multiple settings but quite honestly , the results weren't any better than with my Panasonic, and were actually worse!...The cool thing with the Panasonic, is there is a simple 'Exposure' setting that you can click to increase the brightness while snapping pics, that helps. Maybe the D 3200 has something similar while taking the pic? ...I'm hopeful that the ultimate solution doesn't involve forking over big bucks for a low light source lens or something.. [/QUOTE]

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