I noticed negative reviews stating the image is blurry and it is hard to get a sharp focus. In your opinion, is this true?
1984724
Never noticed a problem with that... It's just projecting a shadow figure for your child to trace around. We got this for our 6 yr old son last year. He's now seven and still uses it, but not only that, because he has traced the figures so often, he is a better drawer than most his class, drawing from memory now!
1984725
We did not have that problem. There is a sliding focus adjustment that works perfectly.
1984726
I wouldn't say it's hard to get a good focus, but you do have to adjust the lid height and focus button each time a new pic is inserted.
387949
The zoom is pretty good good, but up to a certain point (there is a gauge on the screen when you zoom that has a mark). when it gets past that, it changes the resolution so it's not quite a clear, but I've taken wonderful pictures with the zoom. We use it for work everyday, it's a tough little camera and takes great pictures!
1011448
I am not a professional, but I think the pictures it takes are extremely clear. I have my camera set to high resolution, and the pictures turn out. I tend to leave the focus on manual. There are times the camera can't focus on exactly what I want.
854775
When there is decent lighting the image is great....this is not a night time or low light camera....there is a low light version but it has a narrower field of view..... I have 3mp hikvisions and dahuas, this is not as good, but still works well considering that it has built in mic and speaker....
1571906
The short answer is no, but in my opinion that's a good thing since you have more control over the focus and apeture. It can be pretty unforgiving though, since it has such a shallow depth of field-- great for film, rough sometimes for stills.
1796672
Hi Jorge, it's beautiful. I normally use the 50mm 1:1.2. I'm spoiled and prefer this over any zoom.
1074083
It's pretty decent! It's a bit grainy, and you can only zoom in like once before it gets into super gross and grainy, it has a blue tint to photographs. but here's a regular zoom pic with no filters: https://www.dropbox.com/s/itdukx4wzj3u3j5/2013-06-22%2013.30.41.jpg
1089980
i too had problems with blurring and out of focus shots, ive used the camera a lot recently, and was getting annoyed that close up shots were rubbish, until a friend said try turning off the image stabilizer, i did, close up pics look much sharper, i only use the stabilzer now for long zoom shots, isnt that what its suppose to be for anyway, maybe it aint suppose to be on all the time
500331
I've had mine for almost a year now. Unlike the previous posters, I haven't had any issues with focus. However, I have recently discovered 3 dead pixels in the CCD each separated pretty far from each other. I shrink most of my pictures for web use so it's not really an issue with me but it's not good when there's more than a couple of dead pixels in your CCD. Otherwise it's been pretty good; I do like it a lot.
2257131
Absolutely not. The focus is not crystal clear and the image is not bright enough for stars. Also, the zoom feature requires refocusing throughout the magnification range which is very frustration.
310550
i used mine this past weekend in a low light indoor situation, I wasn't happy at all with the results. I find this camera very hard to get crisp clear pictures. Not happy with my purchase, its very sensitive to blurring.
968166
Okay M.I got my camera last night. I took a couple of pictures on my in to work this morning. I am going to post them after I make this post. I don't know what people are complaining about when they complain that the pictures are blurry. The pictures I took were extremely sharp. For the sample picture go the listed item. I will post more pictures by Sunday. Feel free to email me if you have any questions (superat06@gmail.com)Sean
1869621
I have the same problem with this camera. Focus is soft and there are noticeable chromatic aberrations (aura you're talking about), there's also noticeable barrel effect (people look wider off-center). Honestly, optics is pretty bad on this camera. The focusing system also seems to be hit and miss but mostly miss. I set mine in manual mode with center focusing and even then the image is far from what I'm used to call "in focus". I'm surprised this camera is rated this high. My older Canon S410 takes consistently better images.
758381
Yes, you can see. The image quality will not be the best due to lighting and focus distance.
796877
In terms of optical quality the lens is soberb, period. Focus maybe an issue becouse of a internal noise that it makes sometimes, direct sound could be a problem. I sugest to you do a test in a store or rent one. I did not make any test myself, in the moment it arrive I make some shooting around the house and start use it. A classic lens for portraits.
1719843
I think it's very good as long as it is not facing a window. Sunlight coming in distorts the picture but the outside camera works great, I don't really understand that but over all I think the image is good.
990936
It hasn't been an issue -- I've cropped pictures -- but I am not a pro. I love the lens. It's great for low light shots.