All of my Images are out of focus

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MicheleWelsh

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I'm embarrassed to even be asking this question. . . I have never had this issue before and I cannot figure out what I must have done. I took 1000 pictures at a ballet show today and every single photo was out of focus. I took the same 1000 pictures yesterday at the previous show and every picture was sharp and in focus. Settings were the same; pretty low light so 1/250, F2.8, ISO 3200. Lens 70-200mm. Nikon D3. Like I said, everything yesterday was the same. I'm thinking I accidentally pushed a button on my camera without knowing it because it was very dark in the audience, but I don't know what I did. Does anyone have any ideas? I've been taking live action dance pictures for 8 years and I have never done this before. Stupid, stupid, stupid, and it's killing me that I don't know why. :shame:

Michele


 
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Don Kuykendall_RIP

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If you would post a photo showing the EXIF Data that would help us see what the problem was. When you post make sure to resize to 1000 px on the long side. Anymore and the EXIF will get removed by the forum software.
Guidelines to adding a photo to your post.

1. Resize photo to 1000px on the long side.
2. Resolution set to 72ppi (Pixels Per Inch)

These guidelines will be good for viewing on a computer but will not be good for printing. This will help safeguard your copyright.







 
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WayneF

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MicheleWelsh said:
I'm embarrassed to even be asking this question. . . I have never had this issue before and I cannot figure out what I must have done. I took 1000 pictures at a ballet show today and every single photo was out of focus. I took the same 1000 pictures yesterday at the previous show and every picture was sharp and in focus. Settings were the same; pretty low light so 1/250, F2.8, ISO 3200. Lens 70-200mm. Nikon D3. Like I said, everything yesterday was the same. I'm thinking I accidentally pushed a button on my camera without knowing it because it was very dark in the audience, but I don't know what I did. Does anyone have any ideas? I've been taking live action dance pictures for 8 years and I have never done this before. Stupid, stupid, stupid, and it's killing me that I don't know why. :shame:

Michele
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A likely cause is that the camera accidentally got set to AutoFocus Off (manual focus). The switch on the body is under the lens release button, at maybe 4 o'clock around the lens. The lens also has an AF Off switch on it. Either could do it. Exif will show Focus Mode: Manual in that case. Focus mode: AF-S default will not otherwise allow the shutter to activate if AF-S, but if focus was not found.

This used to happen to me now and then, until I got a D800. The older bodies had a switch very easily touched and changed by accident. The D800 added a button that had to be pushed before it could be changed, accidents very unlikely now. I don't know about a D3, but it sounds older.
 
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