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Hello, I was travelling last week and took a few pictures of ships with my Sony 70-350mm, which I love and appreciate very much. This is the second model of this lens I have owned and I have always been very happy with it. I have been using the lens for several years (my second model only for a month). Recently, however, I've noticed that it tends to produce a whole series of blurred images. I can't say whether it's user error or whether it's the lens. I would like to hear your opinions on this. As you can see in the example picture, the right edge in particular is clearly blurred. Okay, of course I know this from lenses that they become blurrier towards the edge, but not necessarily from this lens and especially not to this extent. I'm not really used to this with this lens, as it normally delivers perfect results from corner to corner. Please view the image here: https://i.postimg.cc/zDrg0wm1/BBC09960-20250503.jpg This is not the only image that looks like this. The next 3 pictures before and after look similar. I think 1/500 sec is actually appropriate in this situation, as the image stabiliser works really well. The picture was taken at 310mm with aperture 8 and ISO 100. I checked where the focus of this picture was, approximately to the right of the bridge near the stack. I am using AF-C with one focus area and metering method Multi. Thank you very much.

I used my new Sony 70-200/f4 on a weekend trip recently and took a lot of street photos using this lens. Looks OK on screen and also at home, until I zoom in. Then most pictures are a little bit un-sharp, like if it isn't really focused. I used f-values between 4-7.1 and shutter speed of at least 1/400, so I don't think movement is a problem. And the edges are not fuzzy, it is more like you can't see the smallest details, like pores in the skin etc. Is my lens in need of calibration of what can the problem be? I'm very new to this kind of tele-lenses, so I don't know. I use AF single with medium spot btw and aim for anywhere on the face.

Folks; had my first outdoor trip with the A6000 yesterday, went through a lost place, doing a load of shooting indoors with tripod as well as a few outdoor shots. Had the camera set to automatic aperture and ISO to 100 (intended to keep noise low). Used the stock 16-50 lens. Outcome: Most of the pictures I took indoors with tripod are mostly okay for a first day. However, virtually *all* the outdoor pictures failed and look like these two examples (EXIF should be embedded): http://zimmer428.net/zeugs/DSC00176.JPG http://zimmer428.net/zeugs/DSC00238.JPG I was a bit shocked, but as I am new to this device, I want to find out whether it's an issue with camera / lens or whether I'm just yet too stupid to operate it correctly. Used a PowerShot G series for the last years as well as a film-based SLR for roughly two decades so I have at least basic understandings of the optical conditions and aspects of photography. Can anyone enlighten me what could be possibly wrong with these shots? TIA and all the best, Kristian

I have been using my a6300 for about 5 months and the focusing is not very good. I would say about 90% of the time with any AF the focus is blurry regardless of still images, lens, ISO, Fstop . . . see attached file. Lens: Sony SEL24024 Sony SEL1018 pls any suggestions or help/. Todd

i've been using my A6300 for about 5 months and find that images are frequently blurry. I've checked firmware, using different focas methods, F stops . . still my images are usually not crisp or as clear as I'd expect. lenses: sony SEL 24024 see attachment. zoomed in 200mm, small focus point. the bottle is only 8' away from camera. Text is very blurry even at native res. Please any help. Todd

Greetings! I'm from Germany, so my English might be not the best - sorry for that I have got some seroius problems with my Alpha 6000 and my 3 lenses (12mm Samyang, Sony Kit 16-50mm and Sony SEL 18-105mm) and searched nearly the whole internet and YouTube - I still have no idea what's the problem, so mabye someone here can help me. My problem: ALL pictures with EVERY lense in EVERY mode and all the various settings are unsharp. It's not like an ISO-noise. I got the feeling that the camera sometimes doesn't even focus the right way (and that for the "superfast autofocus"...). I tried really everything and gone through all the theory, so I know what I should do to get good pictures in the different modes, but even the Auto-Mode is really really bad in picture quality (it's unsharp, colors got a too high saturation, ...). Before this I used a Nikon D5300 with a Kit-lense and the pictures were perfect, far better than the ones I get with A6000 So my question is: What I am doing wrong? Is there some major setting I didn't see or could it be that my camera is damaged somehow? I bought it a few weeks ago and I am on an Englandtrip right now (so I expected to have fun with the camera and the pictures...) and since I bought it the pictures are not really sharp I thought it might be a setting problem, so I wanted to give it a try, but now I am totally done, I have no further ideas. Thank you so much for reading my post!