On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 04:10:14 GMT, Sum <sumlin@earthlink.net> wrote:

>I am not sure if this is some settings on my PC9 I should have adjusted

>but we went skiing and I taped some video of my 3 year old playing in

>the slow and falling and stuff, and the snow being so white, and the sky

>being white and everything being so bright, the video turned out to be

>really bad, like it was over-exposed and at times out of focus. Of

>course when I was shooting it I did not noticed since I was wearing

>sunglasses. Stupid me.

>

>Any advise for future shooting what I should do in terms of settings or

>additional equipment to compensate?

Go into the menus and select "auto shutter - on" (this

enables high shutter speeds, removing the need for a

ND filter in bright light). It may be that you had

manual exposure set - try using auto, selecting "sand

and snow" to avoid underexposure from the predominant

bright snow (meters like to turn snow grey...;-).

As others pointed out, a polarizer can be useful (for

saturating colors a bit, and reducing tone level in

some areas) - but you must adjust its rotation for

the best effect, not always convenient...