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...
@AnaNera wrote:
@AndreaW wrote:This is the EXACT same problem I am having with my new Canon 6D Mark II camera. I never had this issue with my Canon 6D camera, therefore, the issue is not the lenses I am using because I tried using 3 different lenses and, unfortunately, had the same result -- fuzzy-looking photos. 😞
Would this be a camera defect?
I have the same problem, photos end up looking horrible. This is one of the fuzzy photos I got.
It is strongly suggested that you send your camera and lens that you used here to Canon for checkout and repair.
I wasn't being harsh. It sounded as though you were responding to someone else's issue.
If you look as the image below you will see that the bassist's hands are fuzzy. Yes, this photo was taken in low light, however, with the Canon 6D I would not have had this happen. With the Canon 6D Mark II this "fuzziness" appears in many of my photos, especially around the edges where there is less light. (And yes, I know all about the importance of light as you will see in my photos: www.AndreaWattsPhotography.com )
@AndreaW wrote:
I think you made a mistake and meant to respond to someone else because your response did not address my issue. My issue has nothing to do with depth of field.
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No mistake. The comment was directed at you.
I'm reading your responses to people who are trying to be helpful, but you're rejecting any ideas that indicate that there is the remotest possibility that the problem is due to the photographer's error.
In the words of Ansel Adams "The most important part of the camera is the 12 inches behind it."
I also tried to explain that if you *really* insist on thinking that the problem must be the camera, then you've got to isolate all other possibilities by taking a test shot using proper testing techniques so that the things like camera movement, photographer movement, subject movement, focus position, shutter speed, etc. can't possibly be the reason for a blurred shot. But this means using proper test targets and tripods.
Your shot doesn't have any EXIF data attached. But the issue with the musician's hands is caused by motion blur. There's no mistake here ... that is motion blur. If you think otherwise, then you're still not familiar with it.
I use motion blur on purpose. Here's an example:
To freeze motion ... shutter speeds of around 1/250th *might* freeze motion if it isn't moving very fast (and close inspection will usually reveal some blur). For fast-moving subjects you can need shutter speeds of 1/1000th sec or faster. THIS shot was taken at just 1/125th (I've taken motion blur at much slower speeds). The image is tack-sharp. You can count the whiskers on his face. You can see the fine detail in his face, hands, and torso. But his legs and shoes are blurred (they are moving relative to his body) and while the bike frame is tack-sharp, the wheels and spokes are blurred. The background is blurred due to the effects of motion because the camera lens was swinging from left to right "following" the rider. The whole effect is done on purpose to create a sense of high-speed motion in a "still" photograph.
The musician's hands in your photo are blurred due to the effects of motion (I have many such examples myself).
Here's one:
That was shot using my 5D II (I no longer own that camera body) using a Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM lens ... at f/2. So depth of field is shallow. It was also shot at ISO 6400 & 1/60th sec. There's a bit of noise (I've de-noised it a bit via Lightroom but used masking to protect the "edges") but 1/60th isn't fast enough to freeze the motion blur of his hands.
The background here is blurred (notice the drum-set in the lower right), not due to motion blur, camera defects, or lens defects ... but because this was shot at f/2 ... so the blur you see in the background is due to being well-outside the depth-of-field.
You can send your camera to Canon if you wish. They'll send it back with a report that they were unable to find defects and the camera is performing to spec.
You may want to pick up a good read such as Bryan Peterson's book "Understanding Exposure".
