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ami117108 · Nov 25, 2002

I am trying to take pictures of our baby and because he moves a lot the pictures come out fuzzy and not sharp. The pictures are mostly taken indoors. I tried to take the pictures in sports mode, but it does not help (the pictures come out not sharp).
can anyone help

Bart Leuckx · Nov 25, 2002

Why don't you use your flash?

bart

ami said:
I am trying to take pictures of our baby and because he moves a lot
the pictures come out fuzzy and not sharp. The pictures are mostly
taken indoors. I tried to take the pictures in sports mode, but it
does not help (the pictures come out not sharp).
can anyone help

YY · Nov 25, 2002

You somehow need to brighten the room. If you do not want to continuously "flash" your baby, turn on lamps, additional lights, open the curtains and try to get as much light in as possible.

I have the same probs. with my cats. However, if they are near the window, the shots come out quite good.

ami said:
I am trying to take pictures of our baby and because he moves a lot
the pictures come out fuzzy and not sharp. The pictures are mostly
taken indoors. I tried to take the pictures in sports mode, but it
does not help (the pictures come out not sharp).
can anyone help

YY · Nov 25, 2002

Forgot to mention, I find macro mode better than the original mode for indoor shots.

YY said:
I have the same probs. with my cats. However, if they are near the
window, the shots come out quite good.

ami said:

I am trying to take pictures of our baby and because he moves a lot
the pictures come out fuzzy and not sharp. The pictures are mostly
taken indoors. I tried to take the pictures in sports mode, but it
does not help (the pictures come out not sharp).
can anyone help

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Khaiva · Nov 25, 2002

Use bounch flash, look at one of mine:

1/125s f/3.2 at 7.8mm (35mm equivalent: 163mm) iso160 with Flash

not that impressive result, but good enough to my eyes for family album.

ami said:
I am trying to take pictures of our baby and because he moves a lot
the pictures come out fuzzy and not sharp. The pictures are mostly
taken indoors. I tried to take the pictures in sports mode, but it
does not help (the pictures come out not sharp).
can anyone help

Thy1 · Nov 25, 2002

ami said:
I am trying to take pictures of our baby and because he moves a lot
the pictures come out fuzzy and not sharp. The pictures are mostly
taken indoors. I tried to take the pictures in sports mode, but it
does not help (the pictures come out not sharp).
can anyone help

I disagree. S602 is very fast. Just make sure you have enough light for the camera to focus and if enough light for the exposure. Otherwise, use flash. Also, make sure you press halfway to focus before pushing all the way to take the picture. That should solve the fuzzy/blurry problem.

About sharpness, you can use HARD mode to get it really sharp or at least use NORMAL. Don't use SOFT.

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Camera1

sg10 · Nov 25, 2002

If you are indoors, use ISO 400 (800 or 1600 may work better if you don't mind a mere 1MP and a pretty noisy image). If you don't have enough light to get to about 1/60 or faster on the shutter speed, you'll need to use a flash as the 602 isn't a super sensitive low light camera.

It might be possible to use a tripod without a flash with a slow shutter speed if your baby is being very still. In manual mode, you can use very fast shutters and smaller apertures with the flash, use this mode if your baby is being very active to enhance the depth of the focus field, to freeze motion, and to reduce blur from camera shake. Switch to macro mode for shots in the few foot range or closer.

ami said:
I am trying to take pictures of our baby and because he moves a lot
the pictures come out fuzzy and not sharp. The pictures are mostly
taken indoors. I tried to take the pictures in sports mode, but it
does not help (the pictures come out not sharp).
can anyone help

Karl Gnter Wnsch · Nov 25, 2002

camera1 said:
About sharpness, you can use HARD mode to get it really sharp or at
least use NORMAL. Don't use SOFT.

Here I have to totally disagree with you. Soft sharpness is too soft out of the camera but even the basic tools (even the ones on the CD that came with the camera) allow for a better sharpening to be applied after resizing, when it's really supposed to happen. Everything else will loose a lot of quality. Normal sharpening is tolerable if you want to use the pictures right out of the camera but hard sharpening is a total and utter mess.

The problems described have nothing to do with sharpening by the way but are probably the result of camera shake to some extent and too long exposure times (even with flash) because of the ambient light available.

regards
Karl Günter Wünsch

JWU42 · Nov 25, 2002

Karl Günter Wünsch said:
Here I have to totally disagree with you. Soft sharpness is too
soft out of the camera but even the basic tools (even the ones on
the CD that came with the camera) allow for a better sharpening to
be applied after resizing, when it's really supposed to happen.
Everything else will loose a lot of quality. Normal sharpening is
tolerable if you want to use the pictures right out of the camera
but hard sharpening is a total and utter mess.

The problems described have nothing to do with sharpening by the
way but are probably the result of camera shake to some extent and
too long exposure times (even with flash) because of the ambient
light available.

regards
Karl Günter Wünsch

I have to agree witrh Karl on this one (being a newbie myself). I shot some indoor shots in auto mode and had shutter speeds at 1/6s. That is way too long and I feel part of the blur you see in this shot

http://www.pbase.com/image/7689015

My answer was as mentioned above. As much light as possible and a faster shutter speed. It seems ISO 400 and macro mode have helped with closeups.

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