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04-07-2006, 05:34 PM
|  | Active Member | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: North Somerset
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| | | Advice sought, please, for complete novice
Hi, I've just bought my first camera, an inexpensive point & shoot (Samsung A7 Digimax). It includes a macro thingummy, & I have been thrilled with some photos I've taken of insects & flowers (I've sent a couple to the Gallery but they haven't appeared yet). Anyway my query is that sometimes it will focus perfectly (when using the macro), but other times it will focus momentarily before settling on a setting which is completly blurred. (I know that I need to press the button half way to focus). Unfortunately I'm not sufficiently au fait with the technicalities to adjust the settings manually yet, but I hope to be soon! I wondered if it is something to do with the light being too bright as it seems to happen most in bright sunshine. Could it be a faulty camera? Or faulty operator?!!
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04-07-2006, 05:45 PM
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| | | Re: Advice sought, please, for complete novice
That tends to suggest that either you are too close (look in the user handbook for the minimum focus diastance), or that the focus has settled on the wrong thing, or it cant focus at all because you are wobling - if its the last one try a tripod, even a cheap one will be fine for a camera that light.
Oh and welcome to WAB if that hasnt been said already.
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04-07-2006, 06:42 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Wolverhampton, West Midlands
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| | | Re: Advice sought, please, for complete novice
Hello Lynne and welcome to WAB ... I've had two 'point and shoot' cameras, the second one on the upper end of the range, and got some fantastic shots using the macro function on them, but the auto focusing on them is notoriously unreliable, I've found. When taking a pic of a fly or moth on a leaf, I very often think that the camera has focused on my subject, but when I've viewed the pic on my computer monitor, the camera has in fact focused on the leaf underneath the fly .... only a matter of a couple of millimetres in some cases, but still enough to render the subject out of focus .... hence when I come back after a photography session, having taken 100 pics, I will find that I can trash probably at least 50-60% because they are, in varying degrees, out of focus .... 
But usually, in there you will find a few gems where the camera has got it spot on, and it makes it all worthwhile.
So don't give up, keep snapping and I'm sure you will soon start getting those perfect pics! | | |
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