I have a kyocera m410r and at it's time was a cracking little camera and still is.

Now after seeing some long exposure night time cars shots i fancy a crack.
I know that using a timer and tripod is the best method, is it a simple case of pressing the button and letting the camera get on with it?

cheers

:thumb: Hi mate
In responce to your question.
If your camera has shutter priority feature then this is what you need to use.
It should have various lenghts in which the shutter will stay open for and depending on what you are trying to acheive then determines how long you have it stay open for.
You can get away without a tripod for a couple of seconds but you do need to keep it as still as possible.
It does depend on the apperture aswell as if you have the shutter open for to long with the apperture open to much it will let to much light in.
Some cameras have shutter priority but auto apperture which sorts the apperture out depending on the environment.
But you can have them on full manual so you set the shutter and apperture yourself but this does take some playing to get the best picture.
Here is a link to one of my pages on a site you can see some of my shutter priority photos so you can see the kind of effects that are possible.

copy and paste in your address bar....
http://www.morguefile.com/archive/index.php?list=0&sort_label=&sort_time_range=&terms=wraggy78&sid=58535067007762ef3f9475331703c678&sort=lastViewZIP&sort_time=0&author=all&author_id=&sort_obj_type=4

Hope this has helped you you need to see if you have the feature on your camera. If not I would definately invest in one its amazing the pictures you can get with .
Have fun

Sorry just done a google search on your camera and it has both shutter priority and apperture priority so you should have everything you need now go out and have some fun.
Tip if you live near an airport try and get a plane taking off or landing you will need to open the shutter for a while though and preferably use a tripod.

Thanks, your right i do have shutter and aperture control.

Right time to have some fun with it, only done the usual arty shots in the past but i now fancy taking it a stage further.

I believe the longest the shutter will stay open is 8 seconds.


Exposure Control Program auto, Aperture priority, Shutter priority: 1/2000 sec. – 1 sec., f/2.8 – f/3.1 Long time: 2, 4 or 8 seconds, f/2.8 – f/3.1
Aperture f/2.8 – f/8.0 (at wide-angle lens position)

Just looked at the specs, dang for a 3 year old camera it's still a cracker. :D