Studioff
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I have been photographing birds and wildlife many years now but have a problem that I haven't yet solved or gotten my head around.
I had a Nikon D5300 and a Tamron 150-600 G1. Then upgraded to a D7500 and later to a Tamron 150-600 G2. Now I own a Nikon 200-500 as well but I will sell the least good performing lens.
The problem I have is when I come back from my phototrips I often get dissapointed. Blurry photos. Who hasn't been there? Lots of obvoious explanations for a great part of the blurrs.
Sometimes I have shot from a car while engine is on. Sometimes to slow shutterspeed. Sometimes the warm air rising blurrs.
But sometimes I feel that I have done everything ringt but the focus is soft or blurry and I can't work out why. Most often when the subject is a bit further away. Maybe 10-15 meters or more. I have used several different settings. Different VR and AF-A AF-S and AF-C.
This is a typcal example. Ok shutterspeed. 1/1250. Shot from a car standing still and pretty good support for the camera. It was impossible to get it to autofocus right. Ok the light is behind the deer and maybe that makes the focus harder. I have often felt lika it is so. This was in the early morning.
Here is another example with the light on the subject. I seem to remember though that the engine was running here though and the shutterspeed is slower.
I often see in the viewfinder that the subject is out of focus and try to refocus and so on but it seems impossible.
I began to suspect calibration and the lens but I had similar problems with the D5300 and G1 as with the D7500 and G1 and G2. I bought Reikan and calibrated but that wasn't the fault.
When I shoot smaller birds in good light the focus is excellent and sharp. I don,t have much of thses problems in those scenarios.
So here's another one. I love to shoot in the morning with the dewey grass and so on and maybe that adds to the problem. Rising heat and moist and the sun shimmering in the waterdrops in the grass. I thought of using smaller aperture as when I photograph small waterdrops with macro and the light shines in on the drop butdidn't have the time to adjust.
And a couple of more typcal non-focus photos.
I lent a Nikon 200-500 lens and tried it out a couple of days. I'd say the ratio of good pics was up. Some misses but better. I bought a used one (different one) and nah the problem is pretty much the same.
I know a lot of the blurrs have natural causes like motion blur, shooting from a running car, heat and so on but I feel that it can't be the answer to all the blur.
I had a Nikon D5300 and a Tamron 150-600 G1. Then upgraded to a D7500 and later to a Tamron 150-600 G2. Now I own a Nikon 200-500 as well but I will sell the least good performing lens.
The problem I have is when I come back from my phototrips I often get dissapointed. Blurry photos. Who hasn't been there? Lots of obvoious explanations for a great part of the blurrs.
Sometimes I have shot from a car while engine is on. Sometimes to slow shutterspeed. Sometimes the warm air rising blurrs.
But sometimes I feel that I have done everything ringt but the focus is soft or blurry and I can't work out why. Most often when the subject is a bit further away. Maybe 10-15 meters or more. I have used several different settings. Different VR and AF-A AF-S and AF-C.
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This is a typcal example. Ok shutterspeed. 1/1250. Shot from a car standing still and pretty good support for the camera. It was impossible to get it to autofocus right. Ok the light is behind the deer and maybe that makes the focus harder. I have often felt lika it is so. This was in the early morning.
Here is another example with the light on the subject. I seem to remember though that the engine was running here though and the shutterspeed is slower.
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I often see in the viewfinder that the subject is out of focus and try to refocus and so on but it seems impossible.
I began to suspect calibration and the lens but I had similar problems with the D5300 and G1 as with the D7500 and G1 and G2. I bought Reikan and calibrated but that wasn't the fault.
When I shoot smaller birds in good light the focus is excellent and sharp. I don,t have much of thses problems in those scenarios.
So here's another one. I love to shoot in the morning with the dewey grass and so on and maybe that adds to the problem. Rising heat and moist and the sun shimmering in the waterdrops in the grass. I thought of using smaller aperture as when I photograph small waterdrops with macro and the light shines in on the drop butdidn't have the time to adjust.
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And a couple of more typcal non-focus photos.
You can only see EXIF info for this image if you are logged in.
You can only see EXIF info for this image if you are logged in.
I lent a Nikon 200-500 lens and tried it out a couple of days. I'd say the ratio of good pics was up. Some misses but better. I bought a used one (different one) and nah the problem is pretty much the same.
I know a lot of the blurrs have natural causes like motion blur, shooting from a running car, heat and so on but I feel that it can't be the answer to all the blur.
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