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New D500: All Shots Blurry
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<blockquote data-quote="bluegrassman" data-source="post: 685513" data-attributes="member: 45802"><p>[FONT=&quot]Thanks to everyone for your suggestions! I will try them.[/FONT]</p><p>[FONT=&quot]I wasn't sure the best way to share pics with EXIF, so I took a snapshot of the screen with the EXIF data showing. Yes, I am a newbie skill-wise, but this means a lot to me.[/FONT]</p><p>[FONT=&quot]First off, I did a lot of research on the camera before buying. I know it's a very well respected camera and capable of extraordinary shots, much moreso than my previous camera. I am not in any way trying to disparage the camera. I know the issue is with my expertise, although the aperture priority issue is confusing to me (see below).[/FONT]</p><p>[FONT=&quot]I have 4 examples with their EXIF data showing. I think the first three all show similar things. Actually, I think they represent about the best I can get with just straight aperature priority. Maybe 1% actually come out crisp. Anyway, they are representative of all the shots I get with factory settings reset and switched to aperature priority (arguably a little better than average of what I'm consistently getting). The light doesn't seem to matter too much (although performs poorer in lower light situations), the lenses (one of which is tried and true) don't seem to matter much, nor does the subject, not the background (although a less busy background does some better).[/FONT]</p><p>[FONT=&quot]Lenses tried, both with very similar results and same settings:[/FONT]</p><p>[FONT=&quot]Tamron 150-600mm, good antivibration[/FONT]</p><p>[FONT=&quot]Nikon DX 16-80,DX, VR ($1000 lens that came with the camera)[/FONT]</p><p>[FONT=&quot]I know a lot of suggestions will come in to lower shutter speed or whatnot, and I respect those comments and will explore them. But I feel like I should be able to put it in aperture priority mode and not get a 99% blurry issue under a lot of different conditions. This is what I've always done, and for the type of nature photography I like, where I hike 6 miles and might get 10 - 50 good opportunities for shots and I have an instant to make the capture.[/FONT]</p><p>[FONT=&quot]The last one is all black and that's the first time I've seen that. I think I was toggling back and forth between continuous low and continuous high. I've used Ch in the past without issue, but I believe the black photo resulted from switching to Ch in the indoors.[/FONT]</p><p>[FONT=&quot]I'm at all loss. I can diagnose the underlying issue, I believe, and also how to manually set the camera to adjust, but I would like a setup that lets me take the pictures on the fly, in an instant. I know that is probably distateful to some professionals, and I understand, but it's what I like to do, given my current skill-level.</p><p></p><p>I kept getting errors on upload, so hopefully everyone can access <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qtvmqXLtDI-AKXLHchmT4dqmV604TDr_" target="_blank">this</a>.[/FONT]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bluegrassman, post: 685513, member: 45802"] [FONT="]Thanks to everyone for your suggestions! I will try them.[/FONT] [FONT="]I wasn't sure the best way to share pics with EXIF, so I took a snapshot of the screen with the EXIF data showing. Yes, I am a newbie skill-wise, but this means a lot to me.[/FONT] [FONT="]First off, I did a lot of research on the camera before buying. I know it's a very well respected camera and capable of extraordinary shots, much moreso than my previous camera. I am not in any way trying to disparage the camera. I know the issue is with my expertise, although the aperture priority issue is confusing to me (see below).[/FONT] [FONT="]I have 4 examples with their EXIF data showing. I think the first three all show similar things. Actually, I think they represent about the best I can get with just straight aperature priority. Maybe 1% actually come out crisp. Anyway, they are representative of all the shots I get with factory settings reset and switched to aperature priority (arguably a little better than average of what I'm consistently getting). The light doesn't seem to matter too much (although performs poorer in lower light situations), the lenses (one of which is tried and true) don't seem to matter much, nor does the subject, not the background (although a less busy background does some better).[/FONT] [FONT="]Lenses tried, both with very similar results and same settings:[/FONT] [FONT="]Tamron 150-600mm, good antivibration[/FONT] [FONT="]Nikon DX 16-80,DX, VR ($1000 lens that came with the camera)[/FONT] [FONT="]I know a lot of suggestions will come in to lower shutter speed or whatnot, and I respect those comments and will explore them. But I feel like I should be able to put it in aperture priority mode and not get a 99% blurry issue under a lot of different conditions. This is what I've always done, and for the type of nature photography I like, where I hike 6 miles and might get 10 - 50 good opportunities for shots and I have an instant to make the capture.[/FONT] [FONT="]The last one is all black and that's the first time I've seen that. I think I was toggling back and forth between continuous low and continuous high. I've used Ch in the past without issue, but I believe the black photo resulted from switching to Ch in the indoors.[/FONT] [FONT="]I'm at all loss. I can diagnose the underlying issue, I believe, and also how to manually set the camera to adjust, but I would like a setup that lets me take the pictures on the fly, in an instant. I know that is probably distateful to some professionals, and I understand, but it's what I like to do, given my current skill-level. I kept getting errors on upload, so hopefully everyone can access [URL="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qtvmqXLtDI-AKXLHchmT4dqmV604TDr_"]this[/URL].[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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