6D gave me really blurry photos?

[Sophós]

Hello everyone.

I'm posting here hoping to find someone who can help me.

I recently got a 6D mark 2 to shoot my videos and it was all fine. Last night I was asked to take some photos during a meeting but I immediatly saw the lack of quality in all of them. I can't explain this absence of details even in the darkest enviroment or with the slowest shutter...

[ebiggs1]

I totally agree with TTM. It is a DOF issue, or at least part of the problem. Consider a 135mm lens at f4.5 and a shooting from subject distance of around 3 or four feet has a DOF of only an inch or two. The second part and I am not being rude only trying to help resolve this is, "...I can’t even tell you what it was I adjusted in my camera, because I tweaked all sorts of stuff....".

Best go would be a reset of the camera to default settings and learning how to use a DOF calculator. Andrea you have to get back to a known starting point otherwise you are just chasing your tail.

I didn't go back and relive all the comments but if I didn't suggest this in an earlier reply here is what you need to do.

After you fully reset your camera, clear all settings and all custom settings, then set it to P mode, ISO 200, lens in AF mode and camera in One Shot mode not, never, Ai-Servo mode. WB set to daylight. Use your 135mm lens and even any others you might have and go outside on a nice sunny day and do some test shots. Everything trees, buildings animals, people, everything in general. Now check out your result if they are good the gear is good. If they are not, your camera and any lens needs to go to Canon for service. Kiddo it is as simple as that and doing the little test I outlined will tell the tale one way or the other.

Andrea the full reset of the camera is critical make sure you do it first and leave the camera in Canon default settings and just use P mode and One Shhot.

[jrhoffman75]

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@ebiggs1 wrote:

I totally agree with TTM. It is a DOF issue, or at least part of the problem. Consider a 135mm lens at f4.5 and a shooting from subject distance of around 3 or four feet has a DOF of only an inch or two. The second part and I am not being rude only trying to help resolve this is, "...I can’t even tell you what it was I adjusted in my camera, because I tweaked all sorts of stuff....".

Best go would be a reset of the camera to default settings and learning how to use a DOF calculator. Andrea you have to get back to a known starting point otherwise you are just chasing your tail.

I didn't go back and relive all the comments but if I didn't suggest this in an earlier reply here is what you need to do.

After you fully reset your camera, clear all settings and all custom settings, then set it to P mode, ISO 200, lens in AF mode and camera in One Shot mode not, never, Ai-Servo mode. WB set to daylight. Use your 135mm lens and even any others you might have and go outside on a nice sunny day and do some test shots. Everything trees, buildings animals, people, everything in general. Now check out your result if they are good the gear is good. If they are not, your camera and any lens needs to go to Canon for service. Kiddo it is as simple as that and doing the little test I outlined will tell the tale one way or the other.

Andrea the full reset of the camera is critical make sure you do it first and leave the camera in Canon default settings and just use P mode and One Shhot.

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This is a 5 1/2 year old zombie thread. ~130 postings. AndreaW stated in 2020 that she abandoned her 6DMkII. Three years later she is back again. None of the people that claimed to have problems ever posted a SOOC file that others could evaluate without the editing that they applied. Gotta wonder. 

[ebiggs1]

I know and agree. I thought it might do some good if someone else stumbled on it 

[Waddizzle]

“ This is a 5 1/2 year old zombie thread. ~130 postings. AndreaW stated in 2020 that she abandoned her 6DMkII. Three years later she is back again. None of the people that claimed to have problems ever posted a SOOC file that others could evaluate without the editing that they applied. Gotta wonder. “

I used to make a living by making observations and analyzing the data.

There were a handful a threads back then where other members would jump in and start piling onto the conversation.  “Me, too!”  Party crashers.

In and of itself, that is not unusual. The problems arise when you ask people to post a sample of their issue and they are reluctant to do it.  Even that, in and of itself is not unusual.

The real problem is when you start noticing the OP and the party crashers are not exactly strangers.  There was one example of the OP initially posted images from a club, and later posted a link to more images with the same issue.  That is not unusual, either.

Then the party crashers arrived.  They also posted example photos taken inside of night clubs.  And that is when I noticed that one of the party crashers had posted an image of the issue.  It contained people dressed exactly the same as one of the images the OP had posted at the link.  The OP quickly removed the photo from link when I called them out on it.

I think this thread was an example of that.. It happened a handful of times over the course of a few months.  I think the horde came from some group on a social media site.

[Waddizzle]

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@TTMartin wrote:

It definitely is a DEPTH OF FIELD ISSUE.

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I concur.  A focus plane can clearly be seen.  The focus point seems to be the nearest corner of the eyeglasses, which is close to the center of the image.

Moving to the right, the left ear is within the DoF.  Moving to the left there is nothing but empty space.  But, if you toward the left and straight down, the pants a almost tack sharp.  You can almost count the threads.

[Waddizzle]

The original post was about focusing.

And then along came one person after the other who turned this thread into a discussion about spots in their images, which no one can see and refuse to post an example of their issue.

I do not see any “smudges, spots, or janky bits.”  What I see is a portion of an image that has been severely cropped, which still looks remarkably clean, despite the final image having lower resolution than a GameBoy.

[AndreaW]

Thank you for the suggestions.  About a year ago, I adjusted various settings in my camera that I thought would help to correct the problem.  It helped quite a bit to resolve the issue, but not completely.  Now, instead of every photo that is taken in low light having blotches/fuzziness all over it, once in a while that effect will show up in a few photos.  As a result, I try to avoid using that camera in low-lit environments, because it is too unreliable for important shoots.

I wish I kept some of the photos that demonstrate the issue so that you can see what I am talking about.  Unfortunately, I deleted them.  (At the time, I saw no reason to hang on to poor quality photos.)

Thanks again.

[AndreaW]

Lol… I feel vindicated!  I definitely have “buyers remorse” with the Canon Mark II 6D, especially for the price I paid.  Huge disapppointment.  

[ivasale]

cool but i don't trust him. i AM convinced there is something wrong with the gear. stating this over and over again is really not helping.

[ivasale]

it's not but thanks for being extremely unhelpful once again.