Hi,

I normally live in the Historic Forum, but need some advice please !

I plan as soon as funds are available to purchase a canon digital SLR, but at the moment i am using one of the Olympus £170 pocket type digi cameras ( its the wifes really )

Anyway would some of you experts have a quick look at the following post …… here you will find a a picture of HZ-123 Boeing 707 at Southend, the 1st pic is taken by someone else, and the 2nd by me. Both on simular overcast days but my picture is not sharp at all, does anyone know why?

Unless you’ve cropped that pic then the main subject wasn’t covered by the autofocussing point and the camera will be trying to focus on the clouds in the background. It doesn’t look too far out of focus because of the huge depth of field the small sensor and tiny focal length compacts have. With most cameras if you want the main subject to be off centre then centralize the subject to get focus, half press the shutter botton then recompose.