Focus

[Bill Gaylord]

Out of focus photos are annoying!

I hear you. Fortunately as a modeler, close up focus is the only thing I have left, so it's nice to actually be able to see clearly what I can potentially see clearly. I've had a recent issue where my monitor was creating a slightly blurred screen here and there, and I thought I was losing my close up vision also.

[SteveM]

This isn't specific to this forum, but in general it drives me crazy when people think that it is ok to get so close to the object that the camera is physically unable to focus. Like somehow having a blurry close-up is better than a crisp image taken from a few inches further back. Runner up is a blurry photo taken from a camera phone that are so bad they may as well have not posted any photos at all.

Most of the time we're posting small images such as 800x600 or 1024x768 but our cameras are taking pictures that are 3-4 times larger than that. So what you do is take the photo from a distance that allows the camera to focus properly then before resizing the photo crop it down to just the object of interest so we don't have to see your gnarly toes or NAMBLA calendar. This cropping effectively creates a digital zoom since the photo taken from a modern digital camera contains a great deal of detail that you can "zoom" in on.

[Mitch]

My Bad... This time... I was wondering why the camera did not want to take the shot. Mitch

[shawn32671]

pretty sure I've had a few here and there that were out of focus too