The blurry I am getting is from visible motion blur. Most of it is from shooting long shots with the lens in med to long telephoto settings. I now have a small tripod and am using the timer for the shots I can. This is of little use when we are up on the ridge shooting fireworks or such. That's why I started to record a lot of things. It's hard enough to get a shot with having to anticipate the time it takes the shutter and when a firework is going to erupt. Even with the tripod the camera still blurs when I depress the shutter button for a quick snot. Just the other day I found that there is a pre-shot function on the camera. If I half depress the shutter button the camera frames the picture and it only takes a small amount of pressure to get the shot.Len90 wrote:I honestly don't read the manuals. If I want to learn about something I'll read up on it or just play around and figure it out myself. I do think cy did an excellent job summing everything up. I currently have CS4 on my mac, which is older now but it is what I learned to use when in high school. I do plan on putting on CS5 as I got it for free when someone upgraded from CS5 to CS6. On my PC I actually do have an older copy of Photoshop elements and it does do a decent job. You can probably get it for less than $100, just look online at like amazon or something. When you are talking about blurry images are they very pixelated or is there visible motion blur. If it is the first then you could have your camera in a lower quality setting or just be shooting at too high an ISO.
MmeLeota, I've actually never been a fan of the super zoom point and shoot. I feel that the more optical zoom you use the softer the pictures will be. Viewfinders on point and shoots are becoming rarer and rarer. The idea now is to have the 3 inch display so you no longer have to hold the camera to your eye and can just reach out and get your picture. I personally still like viewfinders as well. Even a lot of the DSLRs have gone to the screen now. I just don't like that at all.
I am old school also. I miss my view finder. I notice on our older cameras, you had to learn what was actually in the picture. The screen showed more of a field then was in the picture. Now on our newer cameras the screen is the shot. From what every body is saying about software ,THANK YOU, I think I'll just keep using what I have right now. I'm gonna learn how to shoot before I start manipulating the pictures.