So some (okay, most) of my photographs with my new (refurbished) digital camera have come out fuzzy. And at first I thought it was the camera. And it was making me upset.
And before I tell you this, I'm going to say that if this had been a good old fashioned film camera I WOULD HAVE SEEN THIS. Yes, I would have.
There was a thumb print on my lens... which took up the entire lens. I'm not sure how it got there because I haven't touched it, but it was there.
When I look through the view finder on my manual cameras I can see exactly what my lens sees - fingerprints, scratches, dust, and everything and I can do something about it. And I think to look because there's a good size area to have that sort of thing happen. This thing is like a half an inch, how'd a fingerprint even get on it?
So yeah, hopefully my shots will be über sharp now. Well, as sharp as they can be.
Labels: cameras, Photography
Let's see some sans fingerprint. As you know, we bought our camera from the same supplier, though they're different cameras, and mine is also a refurb. I swear mine has a piece of something, lint or a hair inside the lens. Weirdly, and thankfully, I cannot see it in any of my shots, so I'm writing it off to, uh, character.
I meant to take some this weekend - but cleaning off the dining room table overwhelmed me. ;p
I'm hoping that was it and that the fingerprint was there all along - that or this camera has a very limited depth of field.