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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bojanen" data-source="post: 400859" data-attributes="member: 36251"><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Hello Nikonites.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I have a weird issue and I am not sure if it is the lens, the camera or me.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I am using a D3200 with Nikon AF-S Nikkor 55-200mm 1:4 - 5.6G ED DX lens.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I take pictures of beautiful birds just about 25-28 feet distance.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The shots when reviewed in the monitor in playback mode look just fine but if I zoom-in (pressing the lens with the plus sign in the middle button) the pictures start to get blurry and after pressing the button 4-5 times the pictures look really bad. They look out of focus and extremely granular. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I have experimented with several things:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Instead of shooting through the room window I opened it allowing the lens to be directly outside (it was cold but I survived!!).</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I re-did the </span></span><strong><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px">diopter </span></span></span></strong><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">adjustment...it is very crisp.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I switched to </span></span><strong><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Manual </span></span></span></strong><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">focus.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I switched to </span></span><strong><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Advanced Exposure</span></span></span></strong><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> mode selecting </span></span><strong><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px">A</span></span></span></strong><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">. I also increased the ISO to </span></span><strong><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px">800 </span></span></span></strong><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">which allows me for a </span></span><strong><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px">27f </span></span></span></strong><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">or </span></span><strong><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px">29f </span></span></span></strong><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">(the depth of field should be great with these f stops) and still being able to use a very high shutter speed.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">All with the same results.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">I then decided to leave the birds alone for a minute or so, and I took a couple of shots of the tree itself, which is a very still subject!! In playback mode the bark is extremely out of focus when I magnify the picture with the zoom-in button.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">All of the above does not happen if I use the 18-55mm lens.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">If you have any suggestion I would greatly appreciate it.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Thanks!!</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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