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Blurry lights at night

Started Sep 4, 2020 | Questions
Amuseb New Member • Posts: 1
Blurry lights at night
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Hi,

New to this forum and to photography that's more than just aim and shoot all together.

Have been using a Canon G9X for a couple of months now, for the most part in AUTO mode.

When taking pictures at night, big light sources light the street lamps in the attached

picture of the moon in others, come out blurry.

What setting could I use to make those come out neat and sharp?

Thanks a lot for your help.

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Sue Anne Rush
Sue Anne Rush Senior Member • Posts: 6,285
Re: Blurry lights at night

Looking at your large picture.... it looks good to me ......

But If I were you ..... I would go to ISO 400 Av use a tripod ..... and shoot JPG/ Raw so you can tweet the picture   

Keep trying .................. the moon is sometimes the hardest to do ..... and I like your picture  :))))

Amuseb wrote:

Hi,

New to this forum and to photography that's more than just aim and shoot all together.

Have been using a Canon G9X for a couple of months now, for the most part in AUTO mode.

When taking pictures at night, big light sources light the street lamps in the attached

picture of the moon in others, come out blurry.

What setting could I use to make those come out neat and sharp?

Thanks a lot for your help.

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Sue Anne Rush
Sue Anne Rush Senior Member • Posts: 6,285
Re: Blurry lights at night

Amuseb wrote:

Hi,

New to this forum and to photography that's more than just aim and shoot all together.

Have been using a Canon G9X for a couple of months now, for the most p

Here is a moon shot I took with a Pro 1  - It has some red dots but it looks good to me - I could clone them out but it is what it is :)))

art in AUTO mode.

When taking pictures at night, big light sources light the street lamps in the attached

picture of the moon in others, come out blurry.

What setting could I use to make those come out neat and sharp?

Thanks a lot for your help.

 Sue Anne Rush's gear list:Sue Anne Rush's gear list
Canon PowerShot G9 Panasonic Lumix DC-FZ1000 II Canon PowerShot Zoom Canon EOS 7D Canon EOS Rebel T7 +4 more
Rambow
Rambow Senior Member • Posts: 2,948
Light diffusion

It's pretty normal when you have multiple light sources, bright spots, reflections, halos etc.

I think a bigger sensor handles night shots better, but it could be just my impression.

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