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Distance faces never sharp/clear. Too picky?
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I have been using my DSLR or years, using manual from the start, though took a step back or a while. I understand ISO, shutter speed, and I thought aperture but now I am wondering if that is my issue. So far my only solution has to buy all the lenses, fall in love with them, then hate them a short time later. A calibration issue? I feel like no matter what the settings distant faces, even just 8ft away, are never sharp or clear. I am kicking myself, I feel like I should know the issue! Am I just zooming too far and being picky, or is there actually something I am missing? I feel like the picture on the top is much less defined than the closer up bottom picture. I would love clear eyes in distance photos. Both zoomed to a 1:1 and screen grabbed. 
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I have been using my DSLR or years, using manual from the start, though took a step back or a while. I understand ISO, shutter speed, and I thought aperture but now I am wondering if that is my issue. So far my only solution has to buy all the lenses, fall in love with them, then hate them a short time later. A calibration issue? I feel like no matter what the settings distant faces, even just 8ft away, are never sharp or clear. I am kicking myself, I feel like I should know the issue! Am I just zooming too far and being picky, or is there actually something I am missing? I feel like the picture on the top is much less defined than the closer up bottom picture. I would love clear eyes in distance photos. Both zoomed to a 1:1 and screen grabbed.
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I'm not really sure what you're asking here & you haven't given us enough information to guess. Yes, the top picture looks out of focus to me, but the screen grab is too small to say anything more.
– Tetsujin
8 hours ago
Possible duplicate of Why are my photos not crisp?
– mattdm
4 hours ago
What camera, lens, and settings?
– xiota
2 hours ago
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I have been using my DSLR or years, using manual from the start, though took a step back or a while. I understand ISO, shutter speed, and I thought aperture but now I am wondering if that is my issue. So far my only solution has to buy all the lenses, fall in love with them, then hate them a short time later. A calibration issue? I feel like no matter what the settings distant faces, even just 8ft away, are never sharp or clear. I am kicking myself, I feel like I should know the issue! Am I just zooming too far and being picky, or is there actually something I am missing? I feel like the picture on the top is much less defined than the closer up bottom picture. I would love clear eyes in distance photos. Both zoomed to a 1:1 and screen grabbed.
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I have been using my DSLR or years, using manual from the start, though took a step back or a while. I understand ISO, shutter speed, and I thought aperture but now I am wondering if that is my issue. So far my only solution has to buy all the lenses, fall in love with them, then hate them a short time later. A calibration issue? I feel like no matter what the settings distant faces, even just 8ft away, are never sharp or clear. I am kicking myself, I feel like I should know the issue! Am I just zooming too far and being picky, or is there actually something I am missing? I feel like the picture on the top is much less defined than the closer up bottom picture. I would love clear eyes in distance photos. Both zoomed to a 1:1 and screen grabbed.
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I'm not really sure what you're asking here & you haven't given us enough information to guess. Yes, the top picture looks out of focus to me, but the screen grab is too small to say anything more.
– Tetsujin
8 hours ago
Possible duplicate of Why are my photos not crisp?
– mattdm
4 hours ago
What camera, lens, and settings?
– xiota
2 hours ago
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I'm not really sure what you're asking here & you haven't given us enough information to guess. Yes, the top picture looks out of focus to me, but the screen grab is too small to say anything more.
– Tetsujin
8 hours ago
Possible duplicate of Why are my photos not crisp?
– mattdm
4 hours ago
What camera, lens, and settings?
– xiota
2 hours ago
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I'm not really sure what you're asking here & you haven't given us enough information to guess. Yes, the top picture looks out of focus to me, but the screen grab is too small to say anything more.
– Tetsujin
8 hours ago
I'm not really sure what you're asking here & you haven't given us enough information to guess. Yes, the top picture looks out of focus to me, but the screen grab is too small to say anything more.
– Tetsujin
8 hours ago
Possible duplicate of Why are my photos not crisp?
– mattdm
4 hours ago
Possible duplicate of Why are my photos not crisp?
– mattdm
4 hours ago
What camera, lens, and settings?
– xiota
2 hours ago
What camera, lens, and settings?
– xiota
2 hours ago
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Maybe you are trying too hard? You say that your images are zoomed 1:1 and that you are using a DSLR and "zooming far". For that there is a rather limited amount of unsharpness at large distances. When using a DSLR, that suggests that you are working with quite narrow apertures, possibly causing diffraction.
As a rule of thumb, most lenses are sharpest 1 to 2 stops narrower than maximum aperture. Depending on what that aperture is, you might have comparatively little depth of field. It is important that you focus correctly: try using autofocus. It is also not unheard of that mirror/matte are not perfectly aligned so that perfect manual focus and perfect image focus are achieved at different settings.
Put a dime on the road at a few meters of distance, get low in order to get a solid stretch of distances, then try focusing on the dime and make a photograph. Where is the road sharp in front, where is it sharp in back, and is it indeed the dime where it is sharpest?
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Maybe you are trying too hard? You say that your images are zoomed 1:1 and that you are using a DSLR and "zooming far". For that there is a rather limited amount of unsharpness at large distances. When using a DSLR, that suggests that you are working with quite narrow apertures, possibly causing diffraction.
As a rule of thumb, most lenses are sharpest 1 to 2 stops narrower than maximum aperture. Depending on what that aperture is, you might have comparatively little depth of field. It is important that you focus correctly: try using autofocus. It is also not unheard of that mirror/matte are not perfectly aligned so that perfect manual focus and perfect image focus are achieved at different settings.
Put a dime on the road at a few meters of distance, get low in order to get a solid stretch of distances, then try focusing on the dime and make a photograph. Where is the road sharp in front, where is it sharp in back, and is it indeed the dime where it is sharpest?
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Maybe you are trying too hard? You say that your images are zoomed 1:1 and that you are using a DSLR and "zooming far". For that there is a rather limited amount of unsharpness at large distances. When using a DSLR, that suggests that you are working with quite narrow apertures, possibly causing diffraction.
As a rule of thumb, most lenses are sharpest 1 to 2 stops narrower than maximum aperture. Depending on what that aperture is, you might have comparatively little depth of field. It is important that you focus correctly: try using autofocus. It is also not unheard of that mirror/matte are not perfectly aligned so that perfect manual focus and perfect image focus are achieved at different settings.
Put a dime on the road at a few meters of distance, get low in order to get a solid stretch of distances, then try focusing on the dime and make a photograph. Where is the road sharp in front, where is it sharp in back, and is it indeed the dime where it is sharpest?
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Maybe you are trying too hard? You say that your images are zoomed 1:1 and that you are using a DSLR and "zooming far". For that there is a rather limited amount of unsharpness at large distances. When using a DSLR, that suggests that you are working with quite narrow apertures, possibly causing diffraction.
As a rule of thumb, most lenses are sharpest 1 to 2 stops narrower than maximum aperture. Depending on what that aperture is, you might have comparatively little depth of field. It is important that you focus correctly: try using autofocus. It is also not unheard of that mirror/matte are not perfectly aligned so that perfect manual focus and perfect image focus are achieved at different settings.
Put a dime on the road at a few meters of distance, get low in order to get a solid stretch of distances, then try focusing on the dime and make a photograph. Where is the road sharp in front, where is it sharp in back, and is it indeed the dime where it is sharpest?
Maybe you are trying too hard? You say that your images are zoomed 1:1 and that you are using a DSLR and "zooming far". For that there is a rather limited amount of unsharpness at large distances. When using a DSLR, that suggests that you are working with quite narrow apertures, possibly causing diffraction.
As a rule of thumb, most lenses are sharpest 1 to 2 stops narrower than maximum aperture. Depending on what that aperture is, you might have comparatively little depth of field. It is important that you focus correctly: try using autofocus. It is also not unheard of that mirror/matte are not perfectly aligned so that perfect manual focus and perfect image focus are achieved at different settings.
Put a dime on the road at a few meters of distance, get low in order to get a solid stretch of distances, then try focusing on the dime and make a photograph. Where is the road sharp in front, where is it sharp in back, and is it indeed the dime where it is sharpest?
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I'm not really sure what you're asking here & you haven't given us enough information to guess. Yes, the top picture looks out of focus to me, but the screen grab is too small to say anything more.
– Tetsujin
8 hours ago
Possible duplicate of Why are my photos not crisp?
– mattdm
4 hours ago
What camera, lens, and settings?
– xiota
2 hours ago