Help: why can I not focus?

Luke

Luke

Luke

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Hi all, I've getting very disillusioned with my inability to take a decent photo. The following picture was taken with a Fuji S9500, manual focus, manual exposure and apature.
I've used manual focus, and got it as clear as possible on the viewfinder, but when I look at it on a pc screen, the focus seems so far off, it's untrue.
It is a 100% crop of a 9MP image taken on Macro settings.

It also happens regardless of whether I use auto mode, at any range using a tripod or hand held.

If anyone can suggest where I am going wrong, I'd greatly appreciate it.

blurry.jpg
 
I really hope you're wrong... :( I've had the camera since January, and put the blurryness down to my inexperience.
a) not good...
b) not that I'm aware of, and it does it on auto too.
c) happens on lcd screen, as well as eyepiece.

That was either iso 80 or 100.

What would be a realistic way to see if the camera is fubar'd?
 
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No, in reality, I shoot more on auto focus than manual. I just tried manual focus to see if I could improve on it. I clearly can't.
 
The shot above was manually focused. It looked great on the screen, but naff on the pc.

The next pic was also auto focused on normal range distance.
blurry.jpg


The following was auto focus on ultra macro.
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The next was zoomed to 10x optical, then manual focused.
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The next was just 35mm at auto.
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The last was an ultra macro manually focused, but this seemed ok.
notsoblurry.jpg
 
Yep, 100% crops.
If it's user error, then I'm very happy as I can improve on this. I need to learn to use the distance meter then? Sounds like a good place to start!
 
Thanks Mohain, that's quite useful. I know that the camera is overkill for my knowledge, but I really would like to improve on this and use it fully.
 
Well, here is another image taken today, with everything set to auto and using a tripod with self timer.

The first is the overall image scaled to 20%.
FULLAUTO.jpg


The second is a 100% crop of the centre. I'm not sure if it is any better...
AUTO.jpg
 
Thanks guys, the only reason I've used 100% crops is that seems to be the way others display their macro shots.

The shaking is probably down to me fearing for my life if I can't take decent portraits - this was my reasoning behind buying the camera and spending the wifes money!
 
Looks like ID ten T error then! That's a relief... Although, it just goes to show quite how much I have to learn :(
 
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