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[pixelator]

Help...what is going on?

 

I always shoot RAW...when I hit on a shot that looks great on my camera screen I move on to my next shot, but I get home and on my monitor and they are grainy, blurry, and out of focus.  It looks great through the eye piece, my ISO/SS etc is right...but I'm not getting the results I see when actually shooting.

 

I'm really trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong, if it's me, if it's my camera/lens... 

 

D7100 - 50mm 1.8 / 18-105 / 70-200 f4

 

thanks for any input.

[Jerry_]

Hello pixelator.
While you have already provided a number of usefull information, can you please also post an example of a "problematic" captures, eventually with different lenses? That might help to better understand what is going wrong.

[TBonz]

Jerry's suggestion is a good one...I'd also suggest you include any other info you can...I assume since you listed the 3 lenses that the problem occurs with all of them.  Along with the example, it would be great if you could provide your EXIF information - shutter, aperture, ISO - which may also help us in identifying the problem.  We'll do what we can to get you on the right track!

[Donk]

Hi

 

I need some help with subjects being blurry.  I take a picture of a few people and one or two may be  sharp and others are not.  Sometimes all of them are blurry.  I do not have this problem with my Nikon 70-200 f2.8.  Only the Nikon 24-70 f2.8.

 

 

Nikon D600

1/1000

F 5.0

ISO 400

32mm (Nikon 24-70 f2.8)

RAW (always)

Fill Flash (Nikon SB 700)

May 20^th. 10:00 AM

Sunny morning. 

 

 

 Can someone give me some help? 

[Russ]

Donk - the cars in the background are in focus, therefore you've focussed on the wrong thing.

[nbanjogal]

Russ is right--the cars look nice and sharp. Are you using single-point focus or dynamic-area focus? Or might you be using auto-area AF? If you're using auto-area AF and letting the camera choose the subject, that may be the problem. 

 

 I also have the D600, and the 24-70 is one of my most frequently used lenses, and I don't have this problem unless I misplace my focus point (I use single-point focus). That's definitely been known to happen--especially when I've been in a hurry.

[Donk]

Thank you for your responses.  I use single point focus ‘exclusively’.   If I use something other than single point focus it would only be if it was inadvertently changed.  I don’t want the camera picking what I want to focus on.

 

I shoot A LOT of ice hockey with my 70-200 2.8 and as far as I’m concerned I don’t have this problem with that lens.  In this photo I will have to concede that the focus point was not on my subject.  I’m going to have to figure out how to test the focus point I see through the lens to make sure that is the actual spot being focused.

 

Thanks again.