Why is my kodak camera giving a blury picture?

December 20th, 2008 | by camera |

TheHonorableReese asked:

I have one of those small Kodak digital cameras that are becoming quite popular now. I always take pictures using the “auto” mode.

I enjoy taking pictures of nature, and most of the time they turn out good, but whenever I try to take pictures in the forest, they always come out blurred. I am not shaking the camera (I have tried setting it down with auto-take) and I have thoroughly cleaned the lens. My theory is that the difference in light coming through the trees, or the many different distances of the branches from the camera are messing it up. I don’t have any knowledge of the workings of digital cameras though, so any other suggestions would be appreciated.

RANDAL

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2 Responses to “Why is my kodak camera giving a blury picture?”
By uhm101 on Dec 20, 2008 | Reply

ROBBY

Assuming that the autofocus is working properly, it IS most likely camera shake causing the problem.

Going from bright sunshine into a shaded area is about a 4-5 EV shift, which means you need 4-5 stops more of some combination of aperture or exposure time. As a guess you can get maybe 1-1.5 stops from opening up the aperture as far as possible from the sunshine scene’s auto-exposure setting, leaving you with having to have the shutter open up to 16x as long as your sunny scenes, and the longer the exposure time, the worse the effects of camera shake.
By TomTom on Dec 21, 2008 | Reply

SCOTT

turn the flash on forced flash
if the picture is too dark
use the perfect touch in the review mode

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