i have a sony DSC-P72 digi cam, 3.2mp. went to a football game today and took around 20 images. when i got home almost all of my images were blurry beyond hell. the specs for the dhutter speed were Automatic: 2 seconds to 1/2000 second. but when i got home i messed with it more and tried alot of different settings, and the most i got was 1/125 even shakig it around, taking pics of case fans at 2600rpm that kind of stuff.... i mean at 1/125 only way that was achieviable was putting the camera 5 inches from the fan... so how the hell do you get 1/2000 on the thing? what do you have to do in order to get it to work?

its a auto camera but still

you don't get shutter speeds of around 1/2000 unless you are outside on a very sunny day.

the average person can hold a camera steady to about 1/60 of a second.

if the shutter was in the 1/4 to 1/30 of a second range your hand has to be very steady to hold it without it getting blurry. i think most likely the camera wasn't in focus since you said most were a shutter of 1/125.

Was the close up feature on?

what do you mean by closeup feature?

there was also this thing above the shutter display that said f2.8 what does that mean?

that's the f-stop (aperature.) it's the amount of light that it lets enter the camera to take the pic.

and i think he means macro mode. it is used to take closeups. it's normally shown with a flower on most cameras

one of the reviews i read i saw this

Format: JPEG Aperture: f5.6
Exposure: Auto Shutter Speed: 1/500 sec.
Res: 2048 x 1536 Flash: Off
Quality: Fine ISO: 100
File Size: 1.41MB Focal Lgth: 39mm (35mm Eq.)


so they got 1/500 of just takin a pic of a building....

ok? what about it?

i was takin pics of a moving thing and getting 1/10th that (the football players) or cars moving by...



interesting thing. turned on flash, went outside took a pic, and it wasnt blurry... even though the object was well over 60 feet away.... whats up with that?

Low Light conditions would have caused your blurry pics - your camera would have automatically compensated the shutter speed to match your ISO level and low light - if it hadn't of increased the shutter speed, then you would have got very very faint pictures that were underexposed.

When using flash, obviously there is a huge amount of light available, therefore a lower shutter speed is needed - hence no blur.

but i just was outside in full daylight (well it is cloudy) and the moving car was at least 60 feet away so it wouldnt get any of the light.... would it?

Cloudy conditions breed bad light.

As for using flash, again, it lowers the shutter speed - even if none of the flash reached the car, it would have still 'frozen' the action of the car moving due to the low shutter speed. I'll bet the pic of the car was a bit underexposed, yeah?

arent higher shutter speeds better tho for sports stuff?

Faster = better for sports
Slower = Better for low light conditions


Unfortunately the down side of automatic cameras is that they tend to compensate for a lack of light and ignore the fact that blurry pics come too easily.
Perhaps your ISO level was a bit too low?

what exactly is iso?

it's the sensativity to light.

an iso of 50 needs much more light than an iso of 400. also, the lower iso will come out much more clear.

when you have the flash on, almost ALL cameras with set the shutter speed to 1/125 (at least they should anyway) only because if you dont have it there and the film speed is faster than 1/125 it will have a giant black spot on the image.