I have a Canon 1100D which I bought last year. The Image quality used to be good. Recently I have noticed that the images are fairly blurred. Even if I use short shutter, stable base for the camera and even after using timer to avoid human error, the output images are blurred and not clear.
Is there any camera settings that I need to calibrate? The blurry images are very annoying.
Answer
Not a lot comes to mind on the camera body side, but several things may result in blurry/out of focus photos on the lens side of this problem.
- Auto-focus switch set to On?
- Image stabilizing switch set to On?
- Image stabilizing malfunction?
- Smudges/dirt on the front element of the lens?
- Smudges/dirt on the rear element of the lens?
- Auto-focus malfunction? Stuck focus ring?
- Fungus growth inside lens?
- Moisture condensated inside lens?
- Internal misalignment of lens elements after a hit/bumb?
To test some of these, first check and clean both ends of the lens, set camera to Manual focus, Image stabilizer Off, small aperture (f/16-f/22), fast shutter speed (1/250 sec or faster) and place the camera on steady surface or a tripod, carefully focus manually as best you can, use 10 second timer and shoot a photo of a contrasty subject in such good lighting that ISO will not raise too high (
If the result is still blurred, try another lens.
No comments:
Post a Comment