Walter Naumann
About the Image(s)
Taken 2022 04/14 Early morning. Death Valley, CA. USA.
There are two types of shadows, dark and grey. The winds had moved the sand from the left and from the right at different times leaving a ridge atr the dark shadows and with the sun light almost parallel to the surface at the grey shadows.
The image is not very sharp. I am not able to walk very far so I had to take the photo from a distance and crop a lot. In tests after I returned home, I found that with the high resolution of my camera (51MP) I need a sturdy tripod and to lock up the mirror to get a sharp image even at the 1/1000 shutter speed. Maybe something is loose in my camera. Any advice?
Canon EOS 5DS R Camera with Canon EF100-400, 400mm, 1/1000 sec, f6.7, ISO 200. Hand held. Lightroom cropping and sliders and noise reduction, Photoshop, Topaz sharpener
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7 comments posted
(Group 67)
How much have you cropped the image's long side pixels?
I don't know your lens but I beleive it has optical stabiliser.
I do not agree with Bud. My 18 years old Panasonic FZ-50 has quite sharp image on 420mm and 1/400. On my newer Nikon P950 at 1000 mm and 1/1000 I get 90% sharp images. Both hand held and without additional sharpening.
If your crop is not too tight, I think, you are true, that there's something wrong with your camera's or lens'es sharpening system. I advice you to give it to the service to test.   Posted: 05/15/2022 10:10:14
While I was able to achieve sharp shots using a heavy tripod and locking up the mirror before a timed shot delay, I have not had to do that in the past, taking many hand held birds in flight at 1/1000 hand held.
Something is wrong.
  Posted: 05/15/2022 11:47:54
Thanks for all the comments.   Posted: 05/25/2022 22:46:31