I have got my P880 and the charger (which the eBay seller forgot to send me initially) sorted out a few weeks ago.
Did not play with it much before we went out for a weekend trip. Most of the pictures I took were a bit blurry, particularly the indoor ones. But I did recall that I had half pressed the shutter button to wait for the green AF dot to appear in the EVF before pressing it down totally to take pictures.
Yesterday got sometime at home to try out focussing in my study room. I aimed the P880 at a book shelf around 6 feet away from where I sit. The lighting was normal in that I can read a book easily.
The P880 was set to P mode or A mode. The flash was flipped up ready to trigger.
AF was a hit-and-miss game using full wide angle 24mm. Sometimes green (OK) and sometimes red (not OK). Even when AF is green, the picture was blurry.
AF was a bit better when the zoom ring was at 50mm. AF got green more often than red. When AF was green, the picture was real sharp. Also notice that the focusing area (the [ and ] brackets) on the EVF had locked onto a smaller area e.g. label of a box on the book shelf.
Also tried MF. But it was not a easy thing to do as the image inside the magnified window on the EVF was not very smooth and thus difficult to judge in-focus or not. Sometimes MF works i.e. I can see the vertical bar on the EVF is approaching or leaving the +ve end when I turned the manual focus ring. But sometimes, the vertical bar is already at the +ve end, thus turning the manual focus ring had no effect. Hence did not know if MF is done or not done.
Appreciate P880 users to throw some light (pun intended) on this P880 focussing problem. Thanks!
Did not play with it much before we went out for a weekend trip. Most of the pictures I took were a bit blurry, particularly the indoor ones. But I did recall that I had half pressed the shutter button to wait for the green AF dot to appear in the EVF before pressing it down totally to take pictures.
Yesterday got sometime at home to try out focussing in my study room. I aimed the P880 at a book shelf around 6 feet away from where I sit. The lighting was normal in that I can read a book easily.
The P880 was set to P mode or A mode. The flash was flipped up ready to trigger.
AF was a hit-and-miss game using full wide angle 24mm. Sometimes green (OK) and sometimes red (not OK). Even when AF is green, the picture was blurry.
AF was a bit better when the zoom ring was at 50mm. AF got green more often than red. When AF was green, the picture was real sharp. Also notice that the focusing area (the [ and ] brackets) on the EVF had locked onto a smaller area e.g. label of a box on the book shelf.
Also tried MF. But it was not a easy thing to do as the image inside the magnified window on the EVF was not very smooth and thus difficult to judge in-focus or not. Sometimes MF works i.e. I can see the vertical bar on the EVF is approaching or leaving the +ve end when I turned the manual focus ring. But sometimes, the vertical bar is already at the +ve end, thus turning the manual focus ring had no effect. Hence did not know if MF is done or not done.
Appreciate P880 users to throw some light (pun intended) on this P880 focussing problem. Thanks!
