I've never known a camera do this?

GemmaLouise wrote in post #12859361
So with a camera with a wide angle feature do you have to try and get as far as possible and zoom in? Doesn't that lower the quality of the final image though further away?

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the wide angle features and wide end of the zoom on point and shoot cameras is more for landscapes and stuff like that. for those shots you posted with a point and shoot i would have been about mid zoom. my old nikon coolpix 5200 automatically starts mid zoom and you zoom in or out depending on what you need.

What you are seeing there is simply perspective distortion, as was mentioned several days ago (and demonstrated by josx2, with a pic of a dog with distorted facial features).

This is simply caused by shooting up close with a wide angle field of view, stepping back a bit and zooming in will get rid of it (again, as you were told several days ago).

To explain why it happens, consider that if you are in close, the back end of your dog is maybe twice the distance away from the camera than it's nose and so looks smaller, relatively speaking. If you step back several metres, so the dog is some distance away, the back end is only slightly further away than the nose, relatively speaking, and so looks in proportion.

As has been mentioned, shoot from further away and zoom in.

Look here. I think this illustrates your problem.

http://www.ontakingpic​tures.com …_of_focal_lengt​h_on_port/

Thank you for your input guys! Im going to try this out tomorrow... But what about when you take portrait shots (self portrait) do you still need to zoom? The camera does have a portrait mode though?

I tried the slight zoom today... I zoomed in to the person about half way on the optical scale... Problem now is...The image is really blurry!! The porpotions do look slightly better however.

Take out the manual that came with your camera and read it cover to cover, then read it again. Also, as suggested in your other thread, get yourself something like the digital photography for dummies book. Practice, practice, practice. Learn all the features of your camera, and what they do.

GemmaLouise wrote in post #12862296
I tried the slight zoom today... I zoomed in to the person about half way on the optical scale... Problem now is...The image is really blurry!! The porpotions do look slightly better however.

Probably due to the fact that as you zoom in camera shake gets magnified as well.

Does the camera have an image stabilisation mode? If it does is it turned on?

GemmaLouise wrote in post #12862296
I tried the slight zoom today... I zoomed in to the person about half way on the optical scale... Problem now is...The image is really blurry!! The porpotions do look slightly better however.

When you zoom in, camera shake is magnified as mentioned above. If you have some form of image stabilisation on that camera, make sure it is turned on as that will help. The other way of reducing the blur from camera shake is to increase the shutter speed. That can be done by opening the aperture or raising the ISO, which you do and how you do it will depend on how the camera is set up and what it controls automatically, and what it leaves to the user.

This is where you need to sit down and read the manual, as suggested above by several people. Once you have been through it (preferably twice) feel free to ask informed questions on this site, but it helps if you have an idea what you are asking, rather than simply having a vague description such as you started this thread with. Also it always helps to post an image or two showing the problem, we are assuming now that this blur when you zoom in is camera shake but it could be something else (faulty focusing technique for example). If you had posted an image with your post about blur when zoomed in, we would have a proper idea of where the problem lies.

GemmaLouise wrote in post #12859665
Thank you for your input guys! Im going to try this out tomorrow... But what about when you take portrait shots (self portrait) do you still need to zoom? The camera does have a portrait mode though?

GemmaLouise wrote in post #12862296
I tried the slight zoom today... I zoomed in to the person about half way on the optical scale... Problem now is...The image is really blurry!! The porpotions do look slightly better however.

although I unsubscribed from this several days ago, like a bad car accident, I just couldn't help myself from poking in on this whenever this thread showed up under "new posts".


I was gonna put my $0.02 in...but deleted my entire reply & chose to keep my mouth shut before I get myself in trouble. This thread has been a waste of everyone's time & advice for the past 6 days

sandpiper - thank you

Yeah, bit like watchging a train go off the rails.

But the OP wants to learn so lets see where it goes.