Out of focus photos

External Since: Jul 27, 2004 Posts: 4

I have an 8 meg Sony DSC-F828 and their flash HVL-F32X. I took many photos
at a Convention and about 10% were out of focus using the F32X flash. At a
previous convention I did not have that flash but I had no out focus photos
using the in-camera flash but some had insufficient light. Has anyone else
had an out of focus condition such as this?

External Since: Jul 08, 2003 Posts: 41

"Ed Mullikin" <edmull2.RemoveThis@cox.net> wrote in message
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> I have an 8 meg Sony DSC-F828 and their flash HVL-F32X. I took many
photos
> at a Convention and about 10% were out of focus using the F32X flash. At
a
> previous convention I did not have that flash but I had no out focus
photos
> using the in-camera flash but some had insufficient light. Has anyone else
> had an out of focus condition such as this?
>
The camera has to focus before the flash goes off, which most often means in
dim light. That is a problem for digicams. One solution is to set the
focus manually. Digicams have better depth of focus than film cameras.