Help from D300 users, or anyone else I guess
Jun 4, 2012 16:59:14 #
I have not been happy with about half of my shots lately and assuming it is not entirely me I am thinking it is the camera because this happens with most any lens. Some shots are perfectly in focus, great color, no issues. I was shotting my grandaughter's graduation and when it was over we met outside. I forgot to change to ISO but still 400 should be fine. F14, 1/60, AF single with focus point at the grads neck line, fill flash, matrix metering, 28-75 2.8@28mm.
Why the noise and why is the focus soft? Those of you with D300's are your ISO 400 shots have this much noise? Thanks in advance for any help you can give. I am thinkin of sending the camera to Nikon to have it checked.
Why the noise and why is the focus soft? Those of you with D300's are your ISO 400 shots have this much noise? Thanks in advance for any help you can give. I am thinkin of sending the camera to Nikon to have it checked.
Jun 5, 2012 00:17:58 #
I shoot a d300, but not with that lens. My first thought is why did you shoot at f14???? and only 1/60 you can get shutter sync up to 1/250 and that would help with camera shake. Is your camera set up to focus, focus & release or release settings? Your camera may be refocusing as you move it, shoot it or as people move. Noise hides in shadows and you have a lot of shadows, lots of darks to be under exposed will bring out shadows. But first I would check your focus and release setting. Also make sure your lens it properly connected and set for auto focus.
Larry
Larry
Jun 5, 2012 06:21:39 #
treadwl wrote:
I shoot a d300, but not with that lens. My first ... (show quote)
I also shoot a D300 but usually with a 18-200. I too am curious as to why you used F14. I usually start getting noise issues when I am around ISO 800 or above.
Jun 5, 2012 07:35:50 #
I shoot a D300s and find that the images were soft at 1/60 sec too. The problem was movement fro the subject but mostly from shake on my part. Try shootig people @ 1/125 and higher.
Jun 5, 2012 07:41:14 #
Jun 5, 2012 07:46:17 #
I also have the Nikon D300 , To me it looks like you had your camera set on Vivid , I hardly ever have problems with my D300 . That's my favorite camera. Check all your settings make sure you are using the correct ones . I usually set mine to Aperature with 200 ISO for outdoor shooting . Something else I also have mine set at Normal active delighting .
Jun 5, 2012 08:01:44 #
Would someone please point out where the noise is in this photo. I am think that these old eyes just don't see noise well.
The shutter speed may permit blurring due to camera motion. I wonder how much the fill flash helped to reduce the effects of motion since almost all the photo seems properly exposed.
On the whole the photo recorded the event and that is all you need. With camera and hand in the foreground and all the distraction in the back ground the photo will not be a prize winner.
The shutter speed may permit blurring due to camera motion. I wonder how much the fill flash helped to reduce the effects of motion since almost all the photo seems properly exposed.
On the whole the photo recorded the event and that is all you need. With camera and hand in the foreground and all the distraction in the back ground the photo will not be a prize winner.
Jun 5, 2012 08:23:10 #
When using that aperture you would want to make sure that you hold the camera very still by tucking in your elbows against your body. Perhaps f8 or 5.6 would have been a better choice as most(not all) zoom lens work best at those apertures. I have found that once you stop down past f11 quality on many zooms really suffers.
Jun 5, 2012 09:07:54 #
I would have shot it a little faster, focus issue could be camera shake especially with fill flash.
Jun 5, 2012 09:30:28 #
jtipps wrote:
I have not been happy with about half of my shots ... (show quote)
Your "Quality" setting is set to "Basic". Try changing to "Fine". Also faster shutter speed will help.
Jun 5, 2012 09:51:10 #
berchman
Loc: South Central PA
naturepics43 wrote:
Your "Quality" setting is set to "Basic". Try changing to "Fine". Also faster shutter speed will help.
Your "Quality" setting is set to "Basic". Try changing to "Fine". Also faster shutter speed will help.
How did you determine what the Quality setting was?
Jun 5, 2012 10:16:24 #
jtipps wrote:
I have not been happy with about half of my shots ... (show quote)
I shoot with a D300. I rarely use ISO400 specifically due to the issue you just described - NOISE. I can't figure it out, but ISO800 has less noise than ISO400 - go figure.
Most of the time I shoot at ISO200, but if I need to get the shot, I go for ISO800 and stay away from anything in between.
Jun 5, 2012 10:17:51 #
docrob
Loc: Durango, Colorado
jtipps wrote:
I have not been happy with about half of my shots ... (show quote)
I'm in the same place as Homebrewer....must be old but I don't see what you are referring to.......I downloaded the file and looked there too and I still don' t see noise. Check out my stuff - do you see noise?
Cuz if you do well then the problem maybe is your camera but I'm kinda thinking the true problem is that in your mind you are comparing your images to images used to sell camera's and stuff.
That said - SS @60 is probably too slow for older hands to hold steady.
That said, the flash and F14 with a wide angle lens would surely adequately compensate for minor camera shake.
Jun 5, 2012 10:19:33 #
Jun 5, 2012 10:20:57 #
Forgot to ask if you have fine tuned your lens. Could be one reason for the soft focus. The other reason is the focus selection. In a group of people with a background that may get caught up in multi-level focus, I tend to go to spot focus and steer the spot to the eyeball of the person in the middle of your shot.
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