DSC-H2 slow shutter speed

[Imasphere]

Hi there everyone,

I'm a newby to this forum which seems to offer lots of great advice to digital photographers.

I have recently purchased a Sony DSC-H2. I have tried to take daylight pictures with a slow shutter speed (eg. a water fall shot between 1/8 and 1 sec), but since the aperture only steps down to f8, my pictures are constantly overexposed, if not completely white. I have tried lowering the ISO value with no success and the manual does not offer much help. Has anyone found a way to shoot at slow shutter speeds with a correct exposure? The only option I am considering is to buy a neutral density filter in order to step down the exposure a few f stops. Any advice would be appreciated.

[bnilesh]

It is not possible to adjust exposure in daylight slow shutter speed without ND filter. With camera setting aperture around f/8, EV -2 step are only two options. Even by using ND or polarizing filter withslower shutter speed is possible only in low light. I am also having DSC-H2 but I believe this will happen with any camera.

[Imasphere]

Thanks for the response,

I was pretty sure that this was the case. F8 is quite a large openning. I was hoping there might be a way around it but I'll try the ND filter.

Thanks again

[bnilesh]

your welcome & one more thing f8 is not large opening but it's small. The relation is inverese.