I have a Sony DSC-H2 camera. I use it primarily to take pictures of my two-year-old daughter. Unfortunately I absolutely can not get the camera to focus properly when I zoom the lens.
Here's an example:
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really see the blur.
You can see that the chair behind her is perfectly focused, but she's blurry, and she wasn't moving.
I use flexible spot focusing set on monitor mode, and I'm always careful to put the focusing dot on something with high contrast such as an eye. And I always take my time with shot, waiting several seconds to let the camera try to focus.
But no matter what I do all my zoomed shots come out like the above, and it's driving me crazy.
I keep my camera in shutter priority mode at 160 because my daughter is always in motion and I want to cut down on the blur. I let the camera choose the aperture.
I always use flash.
Can anyone offer any suggestions? I'm about ready to give up and put my camera back in full auto mode like a rookie, that that's wasting a pretty good camera.
Thanks.