Post #429757 by Sabu The Coconut Boy on Tue, Jan 20, 2009 5:31 PM

On 2009-01-20 16:54, Psycho Tiki D wrote:

On 2009-01-19 21:50, bigbrotiki wrote:
And PTD, having to look at all those out of focus images still hurts my eyes.

Sorry Bigbro, I thought trying to take the pictures outside would help, but for some reason my camera makes the smaller items I find blurry and out of focus when I take pitures. I am not sure what I am doing wrong, maybe I need a new camera?

PTD

[ Edited by: Psycho Tiki D 2009-01-20 16:56 ]

Hey, PTD.

This is a common problem when taking pictures of small objects with a digital camera. It happens with just about every camera. There are two easy solutions.

1. Stand back further but increase the resolution setting on the camera (say from 640x480 to 1024x768, or just pick the highest resolution setting your camera has.) The matchbook will only take up a small part of the viewfinder because you're standing futher away, but it will be in focus. Later, when editing the photo, crop-out the matchbook and a little border around it. Since you took a higher-resolution picture, the cropped matchbook will still be plenty large.

2. Find the Macro setting on your camera. It might be a button or it might be on one of the menus. It's usually represented by a picture of a small flower. If you turn the Macro setting "on", then you can move close to the matchbook and the camera will get it in focus.

Hope that helps.

Sabu

[ Edited by: Sabu The Coconut Boy 2009-01-20 17:36 ]