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Pictures blurry. Shooting on a tripod, shutter button remote at fast shutter speed. Any ideas?

russellterrell — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:29:58 GMT

Re: Pictures blurry. Shooting on a tripod, shutter button remote at fast shutter speed. Any ideas?

Stephen — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:54:49 GMT

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Re: Pictures blurry. Shooting on a tripod, shutter button remote at fast shutter speed. Any ideas?

Hrethric — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:23:56 GMT

If the lens has IS, have you turned it off? If IS is on and the camera is mounted to a tripod, often times the IS tries to compensate for non-existent motion.

Re: Pictures blurry. Shooting on a tripod, shutter button remote at fast shutter speed. Any ideas?

Peter — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 17:23:15 GMT

Upload a picture from the camera. We can read all your settings from the EXIF of the image.

Re: Pictures blurry. Shooting on a tripod, shutter button remote at fast shutter speed. Any ideas?

TCampbell — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 17:06:10 GMT

My first "guess" is that your camera locked focus on something OTHER than your intended subject. But without seeing an example photo (we'd prefer a photo with all of the camera's embedded meta-data, which tells us what camera settings were used when the shot was taken, still intact.) there's no way to be sure.

What camera were you using?

Was the auto-focus mode on the lens enabled?

What focus mode was the camera using (One Shot, AI Servo, etc.)

Which focus point was the camera using (did you allow it to auto-select it's own AF point or did you control which point was used?)

Can you post an example photo?

Re: Pictures blurry. Shooting on a tripod, shutter button remote at fast shutter speed. Any ideas?

ebiggs1 — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 13:33:41 GMT

"If IS is on and the camera is mounted to a tripod, often times the IS tries to compensate for non-existent motion."

This is unlikely but a slight possibly. The better answer is Tim's suggestion of missed focus. Assuming you are focused on a certain point but not actually, is a pretty common mistake.