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Question regarding digital photographs

Did you use digital zoom ?

if so turn it off.

Optical only is the way to go


oh yea.. learn to keep your camera still

 
I'm pretty sure I was ONLY using the optical zoom. It looks like its zoomed with digital though huh? What's causing that ugliness?
 
First thing that came to mind was what the guy up above said, digital zoom. Did you have it on?

KK

Edit, what was the iso setting?
 
I highly doubt I had it on. At 5.0mp this cam only uses optical zoom. But I may have been zoomed in a lot. I highly doubt it was digital zoom.
 
Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I'm pretty sure I was ONLY using the optical zoom. It looks like its zoomed with digital though huh? What's causing that ugliness?
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Your inability to use your camera. 😉
Just read the instruction manual. From the picture it does seem like you used digital zoom and took a picture. When you use digital zoom pictures don't come out crisp and you have to keep the camera even steadier.

Basically, digital zoom = image zoomed digitally, when you magnify something to a certain extent, it's gonna look crappy that is unless you have good optic lens.


Just send your camera to me for a few days, i'll take great pics and send it back 😉
 
Variety of possible things.


High ISO
Lens zoomed out=far more light needed=needy steady hand/tripod in low light
atmospheric haze
 
The cam usually notifies me when it is focused. And I guess where I was trying to shoot just could not be focused on since it was the sky. Therefore, I'm guessing that is why the pictures became out of focus and grainy.
 
Autofocus is not 100% perfect. I dont think that needs to be said but even my 4K DSLR sometimes doesnt autofocus perfectly. Which is why I focus manually ~70% of the time.

I think part of the problem is the low lights hurt even further by the long lens and small aperture.
 
In this picture, you moved. You can tell when you move during exposure, because nothing in the image is in focus. Steady against a fixed object, like a wall, or tree. Try bracing your elbows against your torso and hold your breath. Use a tripod in lower light situations. Your camera will worn you if you're shooting slower than 1/60th of a second.

In this shot, your focus and exposure is on the lower half of the picture. To get this shot right, lift the camera till the focus meter is on the spot you want to be in focus. Press the record button half way down, tilt the camera to frame the picture the way you want and finish pushing down the record button.
 
so if he had shot with a smaller aperture but longer shutter speed, would that have eliminated some of the noise?
 
Originally posted by: Lucky
Variety of possible things.


High ISO
Lens zoomed out=far more light needed=needy steady hand/tripod in low light
atmospheric haze
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Hey! I've got a tripod for sale on my Crapalicious thread! 😉

Seriously, I'm not familiar with that model, but I've seen several videocams that if you keep using the zoom button, once it reaches the end of the optics, it will keep going digitally... Keep that in mind when using the camera.
 
Originally posted by: dolph
so if he had shot with a smaller aperture but longer shutter speed, would that have eliminated some of the noise?
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Sounds right. He should try some stacking on that picture. I'd play with it, but I have a TON of work to do!
...once it reaches the end of the optics, it will keep going digitally...
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That's true, but he was shooting at full wide angle.
 
Ah, lunchtime!

I found that it would be impossible to "stack" images with only one image to work from. Best you can do with that is some noise reduction filters.
 
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