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Lens for shooting outdoor acrobatics ?

Started Nov 13, 2018 | Questions thread
Michael Meissner
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Re: Lens for shooting outdoor acrobatics ?

schwdim wrote:

Do you think this is a lens problem or rather a settings/technique problem? Because I feel like my close-up shots are very sharp around the subject if I shoot flowers or bugs but nowhere as sharp when shootings persons from farther away.

It could be a depth of field issue where parts of the image are out of focus due to a smaller depth of field.  If you have plenty of light, you can often step down the lens to f/8 (or f/11, but when you go further than f/11, you might get diffraction -- note your 14-42mm is f/5.6 at the long end, so you only have a stop or two that you can stop your lens down to):

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