Does Battery life affected your shots?

Chile Chef

Does a low battery affect the L lens? because te last 2 day's I'm having the trouble with both zoom lens.

Tee Why

It shouldn't.

Chile Chef

Tee Why wrote:

It shouldn't.

Even if the camera's battery was on a half bar?

ivar

Chile Chef wrote:

Even if the camera's battery was on a half bar?

Yep, even then

Chile Chef

Ivar, Thanks man,

I don't know what's going on my focus is messed up.

silversx80

Show some examples, perhaps someone had it happen before and can shed some light.

Chile Chef

silversx80 wrote:

Show some examples, perhaps someone had it happen before and can shed some light.

No matter what shutter speed I use the birds are blurry the back ground is weird, even with the camera shake tutorial on dview.

silversx80

Odd... see if you can post a picture. That might help clarify the issue.

Chile Chef

Yeah, Let me try upload an un edited one to smugmug?

But are they still down?

Chile Chef

Here's the picture.

silversx80

Ah, thanks. It looks to me like the focus is slightly in front of the Robin. I remember reading that you had been trying manual focus. Sometimes I forget to switch back to auto focus, could that be the culprit? I don't want to make any insulting comments, but I have to ask. If you're using the autofocus, is the red light confirmation in the viewfinder (just a quick flash on my Olympus) lighting on the subject; in this case, the Robin?

As far as the background is concerned, that seems like a typical strong backlight result. The light is so bright that the sensor is overloaded and you get the resulting white background. There is really no way around it other than literally moving around so that the light is behind you, and/or lighting the side of the subject you want to capture. Overcast skies can also cause this, or at least it has for me.

I hope this helps somewhat.

Chile Chef

So my focus may be ok?

silversx80

Chile Chef wrote:

So my focus may be ok?

It may be. I'd say to switch it over to autofocus and take some test shots. Look through the viewfinder and take note of which autofocus point lights up, then confirm that with the preview on the LCD screen. It really annoys me when the camera wants to use a different point that I want, so sometimes I just change it to the center AF point only. I can then place that point over my subject, half shutter press to lock the focus, recompose the shot and finally take the pic.

Chile Chef

Hey Silver, I think my focus is ok, Here's a test shot I did this morning

Chile Chef

As you guys and gals can see my focus is fine, I just didn't have the camera set right. And this morning I will try again with the birds.




These are just test pictures and I really didn't use digital push at all.

Chile Chef

Frick, Frick Frick, I'm going to need to call canon, and see if I get a repair bill going