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09-07-2020, 06:42 PM
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Not been on here for a few days trying to find out where my photos were going out of focus.
Made a short video with the camera locked down and remote trigger and this is what happened.

First part as seen on the rear screen before photo taken, second half is the photo taken



As you can see the picture suddenly jumps out of focus, not my fault but a camera kinda fault.
Eventually I discovered that the auto focus sensor under the mirror inside was the cause. So put the camera into mirror lockup and used the rocket blower and Artic brush (not spinning to give a clean)

Now I can do this totally impossible before even though it was waving in the breeze .

Heavily cropped only else unedited. No way could I have got anything like before in a month of Sundays



original photo


To be honest I felt like chucking it all into the sea and taking up snail racing instead. You have no idea how frustrating it is knowing your doing it right and the equipment is letting you down.
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09-07-2020, 10:13 PM
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Re: camera problem solved

If the camera is hunting for focus such as in low-light situations, I usually switch it to manual focus. Do you use manual focus at all or just rely on auto-focus?
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10-07-2020, 02:57 AM
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Re: camera problem solved

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in the video it shows that the picture taken went out of focus. that is different from what you described as it doesn't hunt.

Steve Perry came up with the answer in solution 2 at 2.20 minutes into the video


I clean the sensor ,like many have to do or have done, never once even knew about cleaning the image sensors as well, let alone known where they were.
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10-07-2020, 11:32 AM
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second clean in daylight. managed to clean more. seems to me to have improved the clarity( sharpness) to a degree

For the tech minded
Nikon D810 lens Nikon afs 24-70mm at 24mm on f2.4 spot metering remote shutter release on tripod

now this both unedited
uncropped


and cropped


edited



OK this time I will ask for opinions
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10-07-2020, 11:44 AM
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Re: camera problem solved

second clean in daylight. managed to clean more. seems to me to have improved the clarity( sharpness) to a degree

For the tech minded
Nikon D810 lens Nikon afs 24-70mm at 24mm on f2.4 spot metering remote shutter release on tripod

now this both unedited
uncropped


and cropped only


edited


Has the clarity (sharpness) improved???
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10-07-2020, 12:47 PM
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I prefer the blurred background. It makes the flowers clearer.
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10-07-2020, 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by TessA ->
I prefer the blurred background. It makes the flowers clearer.
Thank you Tessa, would that be which photo first second or third you are referring to?
It took me absolute ages to discover the problem I had before with out of focus photos , nearly to the point of giving up.
Now ordered new cleaning camera sensor swabs as the ones I have basically have had it
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12-07-2020, 06:36 PM
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New swabs and cleaning sensor fluid just arrived so I can now chuck out the old
 

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