The widespread availability of affordable Digital Single Lens Reflex cameras for more advanced amatur photographers has resulted in an abundance of strikingly beautiful color photos of Northern Lights throughout the Arctic. However, NONE of these compact wonders of consumer technology come with a "Northern Lights setting".
Most DSLR cameras do have user selectable settings that can be combined to provide the needed capability. Many owners of these cameras may not even know that these settings exist, much less how to combine them to get good to excellent photos of Northern Lights. This photography will take you well beyond the "Point & Shoot" of most travel photography.
This has lead to tourist-oriented groups in prime Northern Lights-watching areas publishing laundry lists of these camera settings, as well as the hows and whys. The links given below provide this knowledge from four major areas of Northern Lights tourism -- Norway, Alaska, Finland and Iceland.
A major reason for selecting each linked publication is because they contain some really excellent photographs of Northern Lights. We will be fortunate to take any images of equally high technical quality and composition. Most of our Northern Lights hunting will be from onboard MS Finnmarken. Not the best place because of light pollution from the ship and movement/vibration of the ship. However, we expect to sit in a nice warm place until there is something to go outside and photograph in breezy -5 to -15°C (+6 to 20° F) temperatures.
LINKS
http://www.visitnorway.com/us/what-to-do/attractions-culture/nature-attractions/let-there-be-northern-lights/how-to-snap-the-northern-lights/
http://www.alaskaphotographics.com/blog/how-to-photograph-the-northern-lights-with-a-digital-camera/
http://digital-photography-school.com/an-introduction-to-photographing-the-northernsouthern-lights/
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