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I thought my pics were badly focused, but others have told me it was due to camera shake. How do I tell camera shake from bad focus?

April 26, 2017bad badly camera focus focused Pics Shake

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I thought my pics were badly focused, but others have told me it was due to camera shake. How do I tell camera shake from bad focus?

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Bad focus shows as a general fuzziness or lack of definition. However, it can be confused with camera shake. Leaving aside Night Portrait mode, the FZ1 allows you to take hand-held shots down to 1/8th second. (The FZ2 will let you go lower than this if you use the priority modes.) The 1/8th second limit is well chosen, since it is possible (with the optical stabiliser and a steady hand) to take good shots at this speed, but difficult at slower speeds than that. Camera shake shows up as a kind of consistent streaking effect, best seen if there are points of light in the pic. (Note that this shot was specially taken to illustrate the effect.