Canon R5C smudge blurry photos?

Karl_Guttag wrote:

Mako2011 wrote:

k327 wrote:

Hi Forum,

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The image is shot at 400mm with a shutter speed of 1/50s. Unless you are on a rock steady tripod the camera shake will make the image blurry....even if on a really good tripod...at 1/50s the animals need to be not moving at all (statue still) or you get motion blur. Given the shutter speed and focal length...not to bad a shot. Could be improved some in post processing

At least, in theory, the EF100-400's IS of 4-stops (16x) should have been good enough to not need a tripod.

4 stops is only in the in the best of conditions. Looking at the fence...camera shake is obvious. But you are right...it can be done well even at 1/50s with IS and really good holding technique. Here I think the OP was just outside the window. That said...I think it OK for the conditions.  Wonder what he'd have got at ISO 3200

On top of the motion blur issues in this specific case, the focus looks like it is short/in front of the deer. If you look at the back fence, you can see that it is relatively sharp on the left and blurry on the right, and the fence is diagonally toward the camera on the left side.

That's also part of the issue (focus parameters) but I was only looking at areas close to the plane of focus regards motion blur/camera shake. May need some more examples to see how things look in better shooting conditions