And, with a sturdy construction, decent run time and AA battery (instead of useless and expensive AAA), I might even pick one up for myself. Only thing that this one could have (really does not cost anything to add..) would be a blinking mode as well (on-off, or an “SOS” pattern) in addition to the two power levels.

thanks

Sorry, I’m a Nikon boy so I can’t give you exact instructions, however you need to do something like this:

First disable “ISO Auto”, otherwise the camera may mess around with the ISO setting (the sensitivity of the CCD). Set it to something low, 100 maybe, to get noise free pictures but with a long shutter time (requires tripod). Set it to something high, like 1600, and you may get away with hand-holding the camera but the picture will look grainy.

Then you need to set the camera in manual mode, “M”. Set the aperture as wide open as you can, like F3.5 or F2.8 or so. The camera probably has an indicator in the viewfinder telling if it thinks it gets enough light or if it’s underexposing or overexposing. Use the flashlight in high mode and play around with shutter speed until the indicator says that the exposure is good. Take a picture and without changing anything take the picture with the flashlight in low mode. The indicator in the camera will probably say that it’s underexposing, but this is fine here.

Good luck

Could it be that your camera is on automatic mode, thereby compensating for less light with a longer shutter time or a larger aperture?

Maybe I am just imagining this, but to me it seems that the other light sources, like the LED on the monitor, are brighter in the second shot hinting at the camera letting in more light.