Turning off the flash

[nachoman]

My camera works best if I set it to "night scene" and place it on the layout (or on a tripod if I had one). I then set the timer so that the motion of my finger pressing the shutter does not move the camera. The night scene setting keeps the exposure until there is enough light for the sensors. And I keep the flash off. There's actually quite a few different settings with those point and shoot cameras and you can take some decent layout photos if you know what you are doing. The biggest issue I have is that there seems to be some distortion at the edges of photos when taken close up (straight lines are slightly curved). I think that is due to the small lens diameter.