Refurbished 80d...blurry out of focus photos.. HELP!

[KevinG1]

Im new to photography, started this year with a rebel t6 that I outgrew fast. I seemed to learn pretty quick and have always shot in manual mode. Quality of my t6 photos are great! Clear, crisp, and so on.

decided to upgrade to a 80d, and picked one up through canon refurbished. Well the majority of my shots come out blurry. For example, i do car photography {stills} and lets say the wheels are out of focus, or the lights... cant seem to get consistent clear crisp photos.

Not sure if its me, or the camera. Seems all of my lenses will do it. Mostly shoot with the canon 50mm 1.4 and nothing comes out clear under f2.8. Best around 4.

Ive tried everything. Tripod, high shutter speed, manual focus.. live view, view finder, tried all different focus point methods. The one wierd thing I noticed is when i used live view today, it showed the image on the screen perfectly in focus and crisp. As soon as the shutter went of it became blurry. That was on a tripod, using 2 sec delay.

Hope someone can help me...

[KevinG1]

Someone recommended the reikan focall software. I was going to give that a shot

[TTMartin]

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@KevinG1 wrote:
Someone recommended the reikan focall software. I was going to give that a shot

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I had poor luck with that software.

Just follow Canon's AF Microadjustment Guidebook. 

Prior to Canon releasing that guidebook I recommended using the 'DOT Tune' method, but, at this point I would use the methods described in Canon's guidebook. 

[KevinG1]

Thanks for posting the link. I was just unsure because he said to send it back because its bad. When i did my adjustment, +8 and +12 made it worse. +10 seemed to be perfect for me.

[Waddizzle]

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@KevinG1 wrote:

Thanks for posting the link. I was just unsure because he said to send it back because its bad. When i did my adjustment, +8 and +12 made it worse. +10 seemed to be perfect for me.

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Did you make the adjustements with the aperture wide open.  Your “blurry” shot looks like it front focused.  

[KevinG1]

Yes wide open. But those photos i posted are with my afma set back to 0. 

[Waddizzle]

When you use Live View, does it close the shutter to focus?   <— One Shot, when you half press the shutter.

[RobertTheFat]

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@Waddizzle wrote:

When you use Live View, does it close the shutter to focus?   <— One Shot, when you half press the shutter.

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In Live View, doesn't it, almost by definition, use the sensor to focus? IOW, it couldn't be focusing with the shutter closed?

[Waddizzle]

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@RobertTheFat wrote:

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@Waddizzle wrote:

When you use Live View, does it close the shutter to focus?   <— One Shot, when you half press the shutter.

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In Live View, doesn't it, almost by definition, use the sensor to focus? IOW, it couldn't be focusing with the shutter closed?

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Canon DSLRs can do either.  I think turning off ExpSim is what causes it to switch modes, from image sensor focusing to AF sensor focusing.  

[jrhoffman75]

naipes indicates that using single point AF with center FP gives poor results (i.e. agreement between viewfinder and LiveView, but using one FP up gives good results.

Can anyone explain that other that being due to a camera issue?

[Waddizzle]

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@jrhoffman75 wrote:

OP indicates that using single point AF with center FP gives poor results (i.e. agreement between viewfinder and LiveView, but using one FP up gives good results.

Can anyone explain that other that being due to a camera issue?

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I cannot.  But, the problem seems to happen with only the 50mm f/1.8 lens.   [???].

I was going to suggest switching focusing modes in Live View, as I describe just above, to “Quick Mode” and comparing results, assuming the camera body has it.