T2i Soft pictures????

janeJ · Oct 17, 2011

So I own the XT, XTI and just recently got the T2i. They all have the kit lenses. with the t2i For some reason my pictures appear soft and I get more blurry ones while working events than I do w/ my old XT. I tried changing the lenses around, using a 550 flash, using the built in flash... I usually set it on the general green square setting. I have shot at Mfine, Lfine and raw and most of the images are not worth blowing up over 8x10... from what i understand at 18 mega pixels it should be sharp at 6 feet tall..... so any ideas.... ?? I have a friend that owns a Xsi and all her pictures are soft too..

gsgary · Oct 17, 2011

Forget about green square, and learn how to take control because your camera is adjusting the settings and not you. It is all user error why do people always blame the camera ?

Big Mike · Oct 17, 2011

janeJ said:
So I own the XT, XTI and just recently got the T2i. They all have the kit lenses. with the t2i For some reason my pictures appear soft and I get more blurry ones while working events than I do w/ my old XT. I tried changing the lenses around, using a 550 flash, using the built in flash... I usually set it on the general green square setting. I have shot at Mfine, Lfine and raw and most of the images are not worth blowing up over 8x10... from what i understand at 18 mega pixels it should be sharp at 6 feet tall..... so any ideas.... ?? I have a friend that owns a Xsi and all her pictures are soft too..

9 times out of 10, it's user error.

Can you show us some examples of the blurry shots your getting?

janeJ · Oct 17, 2011

i uploaded a picture from insert image button and I am not sure how to post it ??

Big Mike · Oct 17, 2011

http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/...15-how-do-i-do-pictorial-guide-using-tpf.html

janeJ · Oct 17, 2011

ok lets see if this worked

janeJ · Oct 17, 2011

they are not blurry just not as sharp as i would expect from this camera.... and in response to the first poster.. i do use it in other settings, when i have time too... working weddings can be very fast paced.... the last venue gave me 30 minutes to take about 100 different group pictures...

Big Mike · Oct 17, 2011

I can see the photo...but it's too small to make any judgement on sharpness.

janeJ · Oct 17, 2011

yeah the tutorial had me add it in using photo bucket..that's what it gave me... basically whne u zoom in they are soft looking around faces etc... some arevery sharp.. most soft... u would not notice at 5x7..

janeJ · Oct 17, 2011

I also read on another forum that the 18-55 kit lenses just are not doing the newer canon cameras proper justice... but i really would not know what lens to buy to optimize my cameras abilities..

nickzou · Oct 17, 2011

It's probably a lens issue. I had similar problems with the kit lens on my XT a year ago. I would have to stop it down to f11 before I got anything "sharp".

Tomasko · Oct 17, 2011

Give us some real details, not this. This is useless and too small for any real judgment. What are your exposure settings? What are your picture style settings? What is your PP?
Dunno what do you expect us to see from a 300x200 image.