Sony f828 blurry indoor shots

Sirs,

I've read your review on the Sony f828 and I especially saw the part about the camera

not being great for low light shooting but I shoot blurry out door shots at times as well.

The manual doesn't explain the settings good enough. I don't get the shutter speeds vs aperature vs

the auto focus settings. Can you help me?

Alex<div></div>

Looks pretty sharp to me, but try using a tripod or the point and shoot settings. Honestly i had the same camera and got a new one. It was too blurry, way too much except in really bright light. However, the colors were amazing for the photos. Good luck.

We really can't really tell from a 216x288 image. Try posting the full image or perhaps a full resolution crop of a small area of the photo. From this image, the hands look a little sharper than the face, so the focus might be off a bit. There is probably some camera movement as well.

 

This shot was taken at 1/30 second, which is perhaps a little slow to use for hand-held photography unless you are using good camera holding technique. The lens is also close to wide open and some lenses suffer optically at their maximum apertures. Try boosting the ISO from the 200 used here to 400 or even 800.

 

You should also learn about the Unsharp Mask filter.<div></div>

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> aperture vs shutter speed

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For most people, short exposure time is better for sharpness because it minimizes blur

due to camera motion. This has nothing to do with the auto focusing system and

everything to do with exposure requirements.

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The Sony F828 has an excellent lens and a very accurate focusing system. The difficulty is

that it is not particularly sensitive, which means that in low-light exposure times grow to

the point where getting a good sharp image is compromised due to the slow shutter

speeds required to obtain proper exposure. Raising the ISO to accommodate low-light

increases noise unacceptably beyond a certain point (usually over ISO 200, depends on

your needs). If there is sufficient light to hold a shutter

speed which is good enough for you to make exposures without camera shake influencing

the exposure, it can make excellent photos.

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The Sony F828 has other imaging problems, that may or may not show up with particular

examples. The one I had was particularly bad with purple fringing problems everywhere.

My brother's example is a very good performer, with only a tiny bit of fringing issues on

extreme contrast areas.

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Godfrey

There is nothing particularly wrong with your shot except it needs some sharpening. I used 75% High Pass Sharpening with Paint Shop Pro. The better the camera the softer the results usually becuase it is expected that we prefer to do the after treatment to our liking rather than rely on the camera as with a point and shoot camera.<div></div>