What am I doing wrong?

nopix said:

Why do you have the ISO set to 100? Try 400 or 800. Lower ss to 1/1000 or so. Experiment to get the best settings for the lighting.

Photo is underexposed.

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The OP is complaining about sharpness and your solution is a slower shutter speed?

Also, we can't tell if it raw is underexposed or not by looking at the processed JPEG.

Jim

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I just tried several shots with the 1.4X TC. Shutters all at 1/2000 with SS and Mech and Stabilization on or off. I had no difference in any of the photos; I will get the monopod out to try that as well. I will say I did not compare photos without the TC this time. I elect not to share the images due to a subject as its boring as heck.

Silent mode and some camera movement? Or IBIS causing trouble?

forceofnature said:

I just tried several shots with the 1.4X TC. Shutters all at 1/2000 with SS and Mech and Stabilization on or off. I had no difference in any of the photos; I will get the monopod out to try that as well. I will say I did not compare photos without the TC this time. I elect not to share the images due to a subject as its boring as heck.

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For a test image, try a Siemens Star. That's a good subject to analyse camera motion. You don't have to fill the frame with it, just make sure it covers a few hundred pixels in each direction. Then post samples.

ok I have tried to reproduce the issue and could not do it. I will leave this shot here. The first image is with the TC and it does lose a little sharpness shutter was at 1/1600s. The second shot is 1/800s the third is 1/2000s but no TC. Both are cropped pretty hard. The image is with the TC and it does lose a little sharpness shutter was at 1/1600s

With shutter speed of 1/2000 and steadyshot on, hard to believe it's motion blur so maybe focus was a bit off?

JimKasson said:

nopix said:

Why do you have the ISO set to 100? Try 400 or 800. Lower ss to 1/1000 or so. Experiment to get the best settings for the lighting.

Photo is underexposed.

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The OP is complaining about sharpness and your solution is a slower shutter speed?

Also, we can't tell if it raw is underexposed or not by looking at the processed JPEG.

Jim

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1/1000 is not a slow ss, it should be more than sufficient for the subject. Yes, what is shown is underexposed. If you want a faster ss than 1/1000, raising the iso will take care of that. He also has a static subject.

Note also that I said he should experiment.

PWPhotography said:

Try the lens without TC to see on the same setting if you can get sharp photos? I have never even tried 1.4x TC on FE 70-200 GM. I heard sharpness is not great but recently I have seen someone's copy has the great sharpness with 1.4x TC.

Otherwise I always leave EFC (electronic first curtain) and IBIS on my FE 100-400 GM with or without 1.4x TC in action type photos and I got great sharpness as you can see in my airshow photos. I did such with Canon lenses in the past and the same with Sony counterparts.

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You took the words right out of my mouth.

I have found that the tc's do not work near as well on the 70-200 GM as they do on the the 100-400 GM or 400GM and ready many other posts saying the same. But something is not right with your technique or you have a bad bad copy.

I had a lot of trouble with telephotos when I started using them there is definitely a learning curve but today using the right techniques and preferably a tripod and using cable release my images are tack sharp.

I don't know if it just me but using a monopod my viewfinder is not steady at all much of the time. When you get out to 600 and 840mm any movement is a failed capture.

I am not a fan of the 2x tc but I need to give it another try with proper dfine2 or LR I have seen some pretty amazing images.

I really enjoy super tele shots and today my most popular images are with the 100-400 GM and 400 GM by far.

You all should watch this youtube on the 600GM it really gets your juices flowing and shows how such a long lens can be useful for sports I always thought a 600 would be too long for stuff like this but its is excellent I cannot wait to take it to a ball game now. The way it completely gets rid of the netting behind home plate is very cool and the base runner shots are outstanding.


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Is it possible to get some kind of shutter shock at 1/2000th second? The slight halo adjacent the upper-part of the player looks like it.

LoneTree1 said:

Is it possible to get some kind of shutter shock at 1/2000th second? The slight halo adjacent the upper-part of the player looks like it.

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Yes, but I think we need to see an image with a static target to tell.

JimKasson said:

LoneTree1 said:

Is it possible to get some kind of shutter shock at 1/2000th second? The slight halo adjacent the upper-part of the player looks like it.

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Yes, but I think we need to see an image with a static target to tell.

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Wow! Something new every day. And here I thought it was more or less confined to some mirrorless shooting around 1/60-1/250th. I actually got rid of one camera because of it (Panasonic GX8) which in other respects was a nice camera.

MILC man said:

you shouldn't need stabilization at 1/2000th, with a monopod, try turning it off.

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I thought the need to turn off stabilization when using a brace (tripod, whatever) were over with modern cameras?

LoneTree1 said:

MILC man said:

you shouldn't need stabilization at 1/2000th, with a monopod, try turning it off.

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I thought the need to turn off stabilization when using a brace (tripod, whatever) were over with modern cameras?

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IBIS still causes problems in timelapses and occasionally single shots.

alex0742 said:

Why is this picture not sharper? Shooting A7 iii with 1.4 telecoverter and 70-200 2.8 gm on a monopod.

1/2000

f4.0

iso 100

supersteady shot - on

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Looks like focus error to me. Are you on Continuous AF, in a Tracking mode and not Tracking Wide? Also, shoot at f/8 and 1/1000-sec. for better DOF when using telephoto.

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dcstep said:

alex0742 said:

Why is this picture not sharper? Shooting A7 iii with 1.4 telecoverter and 70-200 2.8 gm on a monopod.

1/2000

f4.0

iso 100

supersteady shot - on

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Looks like focus error to me. Are you on Continuous AF, in a Tracking mode and not Tracking Wide? Also, shoot at f/8 and 1/1000-sec. for better DOF when using telephoto.

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...nothing anywhere in the image is in focus. Therefore to my mind it is either an optical problem (like haze over the lens, defective glass, bad filter, etc) or, obviously much more likely camera movement.

It looks like a portion of the grass in front of the players is the area where focus was achieved, but very blurry there as well.

dcstep said:

alex0742 said:

Why is this picture not sharper? Shooting A7 iii with 1.4 telecoverter and 70-200 2.8 gm on a monopod.

1/2000

f4.0

iso 100

supersteady shot - on

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Looks like focus error to me. Are you on Continuous AF, in a Tracking mode and not Tracking Wide? Also, shoot at f/8 and 1/1000-sec. for better DOF when using telephoto.

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It's not focus error.

LoneTree1 said:

dcstep said:

alex0742 said:

Why is this picture not sharper? Shooting A7 iii with 1.4 telecoverter and 70-200 2.8 gm on a monopod.

1/2000

f4.0

iso 100

supersteady shot - on

Click to expand...

Looks like focus error to me. Are you on Continuous AF, in a Tracking mode and not Tracking Wide? Also, shoot at f/8 and 1/1000-sec. for better DOF when using telephoto.

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It's not focus error.

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What is it then?

paul wassermann said:

LoneTree1 said:

dcstep said:

alex0742 said:

Why is this picture not sharper? Shooting A7 iii with 1.4 telecoverter and 70-200 2.8 gm on a monopod.

1/2000

f4.0

iso 100

supersteady shot - on

Click to expand...

Looks like focus error to me. Are you on Continuous AF, in a Tracking mode and not Tracking Wide? Also, shoot at f/8 and 1/1000-sec. for better DOF when using telephoto.

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It's not focus error.

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What is it then?

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It appears to be shutter shock, or caused by some other short, abrupt movement.

I'm going to test it again. This time making sure I connect it securely first to the lens then to the camera. I was reading a review that said you have to make sure it clicks and in that order.

alex0742 said:

I'm going to test it again. This time making sure I connect it securely first to the lens then to the camera. I was reading a review that said you have to make sure it clicks and in that order.

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Let us know how it turns out...faulty communication between camera and lens might be the answer. Be sure to test at different shutter speeds too.