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Mar 3, 2019 21:57:44   #
polonois Loc: Lancaster County,PA.
 
My daughter just bought a Nikon 7200. She went to Florida on vacation and shot 6000 pictures and didn't get any sharp photos. Less than 10 are ok. She asked me to put a few here for an opinion what could be wrong. She has a D80 and a D90 and never gets a bad picture. She is quite upset with the D7200. She wants an opinion other that mine. Most all are out of focus. She tried 2 different lenses.


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Mar 3, 2019 22:10:20   #
Paleface
 
Sorry camera shake thats it put it on a tripod and they will be sharp

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Mar 3, 2019 22:18:34   #
JeffDavidson Loc: Originally Detroit Now Los Angeles
 
What setup for focus did she have? Center weighted? Spot? Etc.? Was the focus point set for what she was composing (ie set to the upper right but the bird was in the left center)? Was the lens on auto-focus or manual? What about the camera? We need more information.

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Mar 3, 2019 22:21:00   #
polonois Loc: Lancaster County,PA.
 
Thanks for your input. I'll let her know.

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Mar 3, 2019 22:24:43   #
polonois Loc: Lancaster County,PA.
 
JeffDavidson wrote:
What setup for focus did she have? Center weighted? Spot? Etc.? Was the focus point set for what she was composing (ie set to the upper right but the bird was in the left center)? Was the lens on auto-focus or manual? What about the camera? We need more information.


From what she told me she tried Center weighted and spot and quite a few different modes. The lens and camera were both on auto focus. Near the end of the week she tried manual focus and they were still blured.

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Mar 3, 2019 22:25:51   #
suntouched Loc: Sierra Vista AZ
 
The experts will help out. My opinion is that the camera may be back focussing or front focussing or your daughter didn't have the focus points on the subject. She may have set the camera for multiple focus points and the camera chose what it was going to focus on which might not have been what your daughter wanted. The other problem is an exposure problem- many pictures are underexposed which makes it difficult for me to tell if the pictures were actually out of focus. How disappointing for your daughter! She could informally test her camera and lens at home by putting the camera on a tripod and focusing on newsprint to ensure that her lens is not at fault.

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Mar 3, 2019 22:34:35   #
polonois Loc: Lancaster County,PA.
 
suntouched wrote:
The experts will help out. My opinion is that the camera may be back focussing or front focussing or your daughter didn't have the focus points on the subject. She may have set the camera for multiple focus points and the camera chose what it was going to focus on which might not have been what your daughter wanted. The other problem is an exposure problem- many pictures are underexposed which makes it difficult for me to tell if the pictures were actually out of focus. How disappointing for your daughter! She could informally test her camera and lens at home by putting the camera on a tripod and focusing on newsprint to ensure that her lens is not at fault.
The experts will help out. My opinion is that the ... (show quote)


Thank for your input. She couldn't seem to get it to focus anywhere.
She tried changing the focus points around and nothing seemed to help. I agree that many are underexposed with the strong backlight and the sun was high in the sky. This week I'm going to try to see if I can get sharp focus. She has been taking pictures for 20 years and she is upset that she can't get a sharp picture from the D7200 when the ones with her D90 are almost all sharp with the same lenses.

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Mar 3, 2019 22:39:29   #
suntouched Loc: Sierra Vista AZ
 
The only other thing I might suggest is that you go through the camera menu to make sure that the shutter button is also set to focus - it's possible that focus was inadvertently set to back button. Not likely but you never know. Good luck!!

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Mar 3, 2019 22:43:18   #
TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC
 
It’s not camera shake. Looked at the EXIF on the last shot, and it’s 1/1000 f8. While nothing is super sharp, the background behind the bird is much closer to being in focus, so either the camera is focusing on something other than the intended subject, or it’s really back-focusing. Maybe reset everything to factory defaults and start from there? I’d also manually focus on a few shots just to have something (hopefully) sharp to compare.

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Mar 3, 2019 22:43:42   #
polonois Loc: Lancaster County,PA.
 
suntouched wrote:
The only other thing I might suggest is that you go through the camera menu to make sure that the shutter button is also set to focus - it's possible that focus was inadvertently set to back button. Not likely but you never know. Good luck!!


Thank you I will check that this week. I'm not familiar with the Nikon settings as I shoot all Sony.

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Mar 3, 2019 22:49:45   #
polonois Loc: Lancaster County,PA.
 
TriX wrote:
It’s not camera shake. Looked at the EXIF on the last shot, and it’s 1/1000 f8. While nothing is super sharp, the background behind the bird is much closer to being in focus, so either the camera is focusing on something other than the intended subject, or it’s really back-focusing.


Thank you I agree. She sent me 700 pictures and not one is sharp. I looked at the EXIF data on quite a few and I can't seem to see where the problem is. She called me from Florida a few times and I downloaded the manual. We tried to go over the settings. Nothing she tried seemed to work.

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Mar 3, 2019 23:07:25   #
letmedance Loc: Walnut, Ca.
 
polonois wrote:
Thank you I agree. She sent me 700 pictures and not one is sharp. I looked at the EXIF data on quite a few and I can't seem to see where the problem is. She called me from Florida a few times and I downloaded the manual. We tried to go over the settings. Nothing she tried seemed to work.


Is she using Manual focus?

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Mar 3, 2019 23:11:21   #
polonois Loc: Lancaster County,PA.
 
letmedance wrote:
Is she using Manual focus?


No, most were on auto focus. On Friday she told me she tried a few on manual focus and they were still blurred.

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Mar 3, 2019 23:30:26   #
TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC
 
polonois wrote:
No, most were on auto focus. On Friday she told me she tried a few on manual focus and they were still blurred.


If she can’t get sharp photos with manual focus, then that points to the body or the lens (which she said is sharp on a different body).

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Mar 4, 2019 00:14:55   #
polonois Loc: Lancaster County,PA.
 
TriX wrote:
If she can’t get sharp photos with manual focus, then that points to the body or the lens (which she said is sharp on a different body).


I agree, she is going to drop it off this week and I'm going to see what I can do. If I can't get it to focus we are thinking it is the camera or possibly the lens. Yes she uses that lens on her D90 with no problems.

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