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Long telephoto lenses need fast shutter speeds to avoid blur. Use a shutter speed faster than your focal length: for a 600mm lens, shoot at least 1/600s, ideally 1/800–1/1000s. Image stabilization lets you go slightly slower.
Long telephoto lenses need fast shutter speeds to avoid blur. Use a shutter speed faster than your focal length: for a 600mm lens, shoot at least 1/600s, ideally 1/800–1/1000s. Image stabilization lets you go slightly slower.
You went out and you bought a big expensive lens. You thought you could capture beautiful photos of wildlife, but everything's coming out blurry. Let's talk about why that's happening. If you don't have a tripod or a monopod or some other form of support, then you need this one simple rule: your shutter speed has to be faster than the length of your lens. The lens that I'm using right here is a 150-600mm lens. So if I want to shoot fully extended at 600mm, zoomed in as far as I can, I have to make sure that my shutter speed is above 1/600th of a second, something like 1/800th or 1/1000th, just to be safe. Now, there are some exceptions to this. Number one, if your lens has stabilization built into it or your camera has stabilization built into it, You can get away with it being a little slower. However, if you're experiencing an issue where all of your wildlife photos are blurry with your long lens, start there with checking your shutter speed and making sure that it is faster— that is, a bigger number— than the length of your lens. For more tips on how to improve your photography, be sure to follow my channel. Thanks so much. Bye-bye. Bye.
