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06-01-13, 10:26 AM
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I'm a blind photographer!!!!! :-(

I love being a photographer, however my eye sight is getting pretty bad. 80 percent of my work is either very soft or blurry and its starting to get pretty embarrassing. Besides the obvious, making sure that my settings are correct to get clear pictures, I have gone to Auto focus and even that turns out blurry every now and then. The reality of it all is my eye sight is bad. So is there any gadgets out there to help me (i.e. bifocul diopter!!!!). Maybe my eye sight isn't THAT bad but its getting there. HELP!!!!

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06-01-13, 12:02 PM
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Re: I'm a blind photographer!!!!! :-(

Hi Mickimac and Welcome

I am not sure what you like to shoot and how proficient you are , so I can only suggest a few things that spring to my mind .

Re Canon :
1) So to start with one shot focus has an audible bleep to confirm focus . also maybe get someone ( or canon ) to calibrate your lens and camera to make sure all is spot on .

2) ( Now I could be suggesting something you already know , so please dismiss if you already know ) Setting the aperture to F8 , the shutter to a minimum of about 1/60th ( this depends on how well you can hold the camera without IS) and locking off your focus ring at about a 1/3rd into the shot @ 24mm .

The only problem with the above is that you are using a 7d with crop factor of ( x1.6 ), turning your lens from 24 / 70 to 38.4/112 .

3) You can get a diopter adjusted lens to fit the view finder on your 7d .

4) Long winded I know , but what about live view ( I am sure the 7D has this ) and using either a simple hoodman loupe
or a more expensive but brilliant
and as a bonus they can both help you to use the video feature in your camera .

I hope some of this helps , but not knowing your subject or your exact sight restrictions this is all I can recommend .


     
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06-01-13, 01:40 PM
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Some good advice there Roy

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06-01-13, 04:38 PM
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Excellent post from Roy there

I would also try a tripod, as blurry images may be down to movement, and for soft images it might be worth sharpening in photoshop.

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06-01-13, 04:40 PM
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Thanks guys! Otta I am definitely gonna take your advice!!! You rock!!!


     
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08-01-13, 05:34 AM
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Re: I'm a blind photographer!!!!! :-(

UDATE......
Hello all,
Once again I want to thank everyone for responding to my post. I got back a lot of good info. I actually used the live view today to take headshots of 20 of our students. The pictures came out great. Weird because when I put the camera on auto focus and look through the view finder, the pictures comes out soft, and the color is yellow (and that's on AUTO FOCUS!!!! But when I change it to live view (keeping it on AUTO FOCUS and not changing anything) the picture is clear (still not as crisp but clear) and the color is great! This lead me to believe maybe my camera do need a checkup like a few of the people suggested. **

Your comments came just in time. I have been tasked to do 2 huge Change of Commands (that's the changing of our commanders) on 18 Jan and 22 Feb. *I am actually kind of nervous about it! There will be guest speakers, high ranking individuals, People will be in formation, they will do the changing of the squadron flag, and a pluthera of other stuff! YIKEs I think I'm freaking myself out now!!! Hahahahaha.*


     
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08-01-13, 06:11 PM
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Hi Mickimac

Why not post up a full size image with no adjustments , together with the exif intact . Then I /we can help .


     
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