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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.
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?
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