When shooting in low light(indoors with the lights on is still low light to a camera) will create blur. Have you tried increasing the ISO setting to like 400? Also, the camera being slow is most likely attributed to the camera trying to find a focus point in the low light. A trick to this is to push halfway down on the shutter and hold until you want to take the shot.
The part your not going to like to hear is that point and shoots don't do that well indoors. Now my old Canon with the external flash added do a pretty good job and my Fuji F20 does a fair job with high ISOs.
Also, another say to increase shutter speed is to not zoom. The lens on your camera can do f2.8 in the widest focal range, but drops to f5.2 when zoomed out. Let's say you were at widest focal range and the camera chose 1/120 sec. for shutter speed. If you were to zoom all the way out, the camera would have to slow down the shutter speed to around 1/30 sec. which could easily create blur in moving objects.
Could someone please tell me why this camera takes blurry pictures, its takes great pictures of still objects people or anything stationary, but not of children in motion moving their arms or just in the sand pit. The other problem is that it is slow in taking pictures, I always miss the smile, the expression, it feels like 3 days before it takes a picture and even that is blurry.
I also think the various settings for different conditions arent that good, I use the camera mainly indoors
ok i have done and adjusted whatever I could, it doesnt solve the problem.
I figure I need a new camera, surely there must be a camera out there that doesnt have these problems. Could someone recommend a camera and of similar size. Brand no problem
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