Does this seem sharp?

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NeilJones said:

Not sure if I have a bad camera?

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It's easy to fix.

You need to take that shock collar of the dog and put around your neck. Next step is easy. As soon as you feel the urge to push a button on your camera, push the button on the collar's remote. You will be cured soon.

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123Mike said:

Ok, I will help.

• Turn off lock-on-af
• AF-S
• Flexible spot, small size
• "A" mode
• ISO auto
• Center weighted exposure

Point camera so that focus box is on the eye, half press to lock focus, recompose, fully press and shoot.

If this is the 16-70 or 18-105 lens, it doesn't really need stopping down, but you might try to stop it down a bit, to make the DOF is little deeper. f/5.6, or f/9 even, light permitting.

Always best to focus on the eyes. Problem with things like wide area and zone, is that it will end up focusing on whatever is closest. Lock-on-AF can totally screw up portraits! It's scan around for closer features attached to the subject. That becomes the nose in no time. Not good. So, small size flexible spot, just placed in the center, combined with AF-S, is probably best.

Another thing to look at is watch out the camera doesn't make the exposure too slow. 1/60 for a dog that won't pose still, is bad. So, perhaps instead of auto ISO, set the ISO to something, where the exposure becomes more like about the 1/250 range or so...

Another option is to use "M" mode and set ISO to auto, but that's too crude, possibly....

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123Mike said:

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This dog looks half old half young. What setting did you use? Zebra?

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EinsteinsGhost said:

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blue_skies said:

LTZ470 said:

NeilJones said:

Not sure if I have a bad camera?



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Yep, but this does too...would like to see some indoors shots Neil...

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Lol, if you had waited for the dog to turn its head towards you, then your image would be more 'Neil-like'. Either way, I would still give Neil the award - your image would only capture the eyes, and not the snout, in focus and I can't even see the tail!

I think that you also should add a camera/owner alert for shallow DOF images

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Test shot with new 42.5 f/1.2...Just looking for some feathers, hair, or fur from A6000 indoors in similar lighting Henry, to see how the A6000 compares indoors for hair, feathers, or fur...be interesting to compare...

Gus would not look at me, he is older and more cantankerous than even me...lol...he would look then turn away...similar to my family...

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Mr Ichiro Kitao, I support the call to upgrade the FZ50.
I will not only buy one but two no questions asked...

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I would, if I had a6000 and FE 55.

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Would be great especially under indoor lighting only, just to compare, this was with only available kitchen lighting at night...EM1 did very well with 42.5 f/1.2, it should, the 42.5 is excessively expensive, but a very nice lens that performs flawlessly and AF works no matter how dim the light or how backlit the subject is, so yes very expensive but very impressive...

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Mr Ichiro Kitao, I support the call to upgrade the FZ50.
I will not only buy one but two no questions asked...

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That is a fairly well lit scene actually requiring a 7.3EV exposure and also good contrast. It also helps that the dog has grey and black hair.

The lens looks fine, albeit a bit too expensive for what it is: 85mm f/2.4 equiv.

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123Mike said:

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This dog looks half old half young. What setting did you use? Zebra?

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LTZ470 said:

123Mike said:

LTZ470 said:

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This dog looks half old half young. What setting did you use? Zebra?

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Mike, he's all old, going to have to put him down soon as his rear legs don't work well at all, he played frisbee and ball all his life and could jump 6ft in his younger days, hate to let him go, he has been good and only bit me about 5-6 times...lol...

Younger days...White Sands, New Mexico

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quezra said:

NeilJones said:

quezra said:

I think both camera and dog need a sharper owner.

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Huh?

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jkspepper said:

quezra said:

NeilJones said:

quezra said:

I think both camera and dog need a sharper owner.

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Huh?

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Bruce Granofsky said:

This is by far the sharpest dog here.


Babu invests into the game of scrabble with another win.

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