topic Re: Camera taking blurry/hazy photos with different lenses in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

Camera taking blurry/hazy photos with different lenses

angelaglamb — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 18:27:44 GMT

Hi guys,

My Rebel T2i has started taking blurry/hazy photos that are not crisp. I've tried multiple lenses and settings and it's still not getting crisp anymore. It's not due to light/shutter speed/AF. It used to take great crisp closeups. Any suggestions of what to try?

Thanks,

Angela

Re: Camera taking blurry/hazy photos with different lenses

kvbarkley — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 19:51:23 GMT

Can you attach some before/after shots?

Are you too close for the lens? (i.e., closer than the minimum focusing distance?)

Re: Camera taking blurry/hazy photos with different lenses

angelaglamb — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:22:52 GMT

Re: Camera taking blurry/hazy photos with different lenses

angelaglamb — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:24:34 GMT

II'm not sure if you can tell from that photo, but if you can zoom in, you'll see it's not really that focused. It has a hazy effect, sort of like some kind of UV disturbance or something. I can't get it to get crisp, and i tried several lenses. I will attach a cropped version of a photo so you can see the close up. i don't think it's a problem of being too close. It beeps that it is focused and I tried backing away and zooming more as well...

Re: Camera taking blurry/hazy photos with different lenses

angelaglamb — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:29:35 GMT

Re: Camera taking blurry/hazy photos with different lenses

kvbarkley — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:30:27 GMT

Do you have one you consider acceptable?

Note that the one here is curved. If the "South" is acceptable and the others aren't you might be having a depth of field problem. Try shooting at f/8.

Re: Camera taking blurry/hazy photos with different lenses

angelaglamb — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:31:03 GMT

Re: Camera taking blurry/hazy photos with different lenses

angelaglamb — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:34:57 GMT

Here's an old photo taken on the same camera (new computer so i don't have the uncropped image but this is from our website...) can you see how much crisper it is?

Re: Camera taking blurry/hazy photos with different lenses

ScottyP — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 21:50:05 GMT

Hi,

All these are closeups and it does look like the sort of thing you see if you are inside the minimum focus distance.

Do you have any recent shot of something farther away? Preferably something shot with the camera AF set to use just the center AF point?

What lenses have you tried?

Re: Camera taking blurry/hazy photos with different lenses

Waddizzle — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 23:12:11 GMT

@angelaglamb wrote:

Where was the focus point in this photo? You need three things for the camera to focus properly: sufficient light, sufficient distance, and sufficient contrast. Depending upon where focus point was aimed, I'm not sure if you had enough contrast in this series of shots.

Re: Camera taking blurry/hazy photos with different lenses

Peter — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 10:38:53 GMT

@angelaglamb wrote:
Hi guys,

My Rebel T2i has started taking blurry/hazy photos that are not crisp. I've tried multiple lenses and settings and it's still not getting crisp anymore. It's not due to light/shutter speed/AF. It used to take great crisp closeups. Any suggestions of what to try?

Thanks,

Angela

It is due to shutter speed and AF. You use too slow shutter speed and you use AF Area Mode: Auto. It means no controll.

1/32 sec may work if you have your camera on a tripod and use a remote controll together with Live view or mirror lock up.