My canon EOS R5 is taking slightly blurry photos

[Shaneradin]

hey all, I’m very lost and I really need help. I have a canon r5 with a 15-35 24-70 70-200 all lens are 2.8 rf. Whenever I shoot with the 70-200 or the 24-70 zoomed in my pictures are slightly blurry. Just to give context I sent canon my camera 5 times and they said nothing was wrong with it each time. The pictures are never under exposed and they are all shot at 2000 shutter speed. I really hope someone can help me.

[p4pictures]

I also downloaded the latest images and looking at the RAW in DPP I found one thing in the settings of your camera that I would try changing. You have Switching tracked subject set to 0, I suggest changing this to 1 to see if that gives an improvement.

I could see from your shots that you used High Speed Continuous + drive mode, have you tried using the slower High Speed Continuous? Also are you using electronic shutter mode, or 1st curtain electronic?

[Shaneradin]

Hi thank you for replying and trying to help. I’ve took shots without high speed continuous and have gotten the same result. I have also tried switching my tracked subject settings, I’ve tried them all and get the same result. I have been using 1st curtain electronic but I just changed it to electronic and saw no difference. 

[Shaneradin]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/121pHgsrEnHStSOH8vjVgxxQ0n6CVgI6q

here are some pictures I took of individuals just walking. When u zoom in their face details are still slightly blurry even at f/8

[zakslm]

Pardon my chiming in on this thread, but I the think discussion, suggestions and process and results of implementing the suggestions is very interesting if not compelling. 

Shaneradin's equipment is much different than what I use (a Rebel T7 and EF/EF-S lenses - all non-L) but like Shaneradin, I expect sharp, well exposed photos if my technique is sound.

So, I downloaded the example in Shaneradin's last post and loaded the raw files into DPP 4 and I have to agree with him, the face details are soft.  They got a bit better when I applied Digital Lens Correction, but still not as sharp as I what I think they should be.

Since I think he said he gets similar results with 2 different lenses, then my guess is that it's the camera that's causing the problem.  The only way I can think of to confirm it is to use the lenses on another R body, take some similar shots and see if the results are different.

Again, pardon my intrusion into this thread, but I hope my suggestion may help in some way.

[FloridaDrafter]

All opinions and observations are welcome, zakslm, particularly if it will help the OP.

Newton

[FloridaDrafter]

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@Shaneradin wrote:

here are some pictures I took of individuals just walking. When u zoom in their face details are still slightly blurry even at f/8

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Hello again, Shaneradin!

I had some extra time this evening, so I was able to d/l your Raw files and take a look.

First, as Trevor noticed earlier in the thread, there are sharp areas in your photos.

These two are from a 50% zoom that I took the liberty of editing in DPP. Hopefully you can see the sharpness of the logos, buttons, and fabric. The faces are a little soft, but it's still a workable image. I can't explain why the faces are soft.

This is a 100% zoom. In my software, it looks pretty good.

Second, I noticed you are using "Face+Tracking" as your AF selection mode. I would suggest, since you are concerned about faces being soft, to change from that mode to any of the following other four modes, fine, spot, expand with four, or expand with eight. This will concentrate your focus on the face. When I want to nail focus, I use fine or spot. I do use Face+tracking when shooting BIF and some flying insects, but those are situations where there are very few distractions, normally blue sky. I've found that when there are distractions, even when faces are involved, Face+tracking isn't the best way to go. At least give it a try. You can temporarily bind your AF Selection method to your lens control ring and experiment with the modes I mentioned. I think you will have a better chance of nailing faces.

Newton

[Shaneradin]

Hey all, thank you guys so much for helping me. Sadly I’m not really getting anywhere and I’m losing hope. I really don’t know what to do. Every single thing I have tried nothing is working. Any advice? God bless you guys.

[Maverick87]

In my case I got Sigma 60-600mm, and after upgrading to firmware 2.0,

I'm always getting blurry images.... 
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/a34hih7f8vddfraawr43w/3G2A0337.CR3?rlkey=j96feolwv7dihgtt6zeq4e3cd&st... 

[Waddizzle]

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@Maverick87 wrote:

In my case I got Sigma 60-600mm, and after upgrading to firmware 2.0,

I'm always getting blurry images.... 
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/a34hih7f8vddfraawr43w/3G2A0337.CR3?rlkey=j96feolwv7dihgtt6zeq4e3cd&st... 

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Please start a new thread.  Your issue involves different lenses, camera settings, and shooting conditions.

[Maverick87]

Already did, about more or a month ago.

https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/EOS-DSLR-Mirrorless-Cameras/Canon-R5-blurry-pictures-after-updati...

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