Can;t get any pictures at night - Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS / 1000D IS Digital Camera

That may be because (in case you had not noticed) it is dark at night. As you have given us no information regarding the equipment you are using, we cannot be more specific.

Pictures probably look black because there is no light at night. Camera need light to take photographs.

Did you try going into the menu and increasing the picture brightness?

When you put the camera into night mode, it adjusts the 'film' sensitivity to let the little light coming into the camera expose your picture. The problem with this, is that the more sensitive it is set, the more 'artifacts' you get on the picture. This is what you are seeing. Unfortunately, with a point&shoot, there are not normally enough control settings to let you adjust this manually. What you get on night-mode is what you have to put up with. However, making sure that you always use a tripod in Night Mode will help.

It's you...in night mode the shutter stays open much longer...plenty of time for you to move the camera. Use a tripod.

To take night photo's you need to use a tripod. this will enable you to take long exposures without the blur. If you use flash it will only illuminate objects near the camera.

Hi

Low light without a flash will always cause grainy pictures unless you have a very high end camera that can shoot at very high ISO speeds like 6400 and up.

Try changing the camera from the green camera 'auto' setting to "P" and then press the Menu button (I think it's Menu) and look for the different mode settings. There should be one for Night or Night Portrait or similar, I can't recall Sony terms and I don't have one here to check sorry.

Your other option is to use the flash, try it with Red Eye turned on if possible.

Hope this helps.

Thomas D.
Owner, Darntoothysam com

In photo editing programs there are Hue settings where you can easily fix that problem. There are off course night lens filters but not for amateur cameras.

Adobe photoshop might help.

Yes, I've got the exact smae problem as Buckfever. no eyes, no nothing, just dozens of solid black images.