Re: Photo's Auto focus blurry. Why?
I did a little bit of experimenting today. I closed the drapes in our living room and dining room (north and south side of house) to darken the room. I then had my son roll a multi-colored soccer ball next to me as I walked to get a repeatable rolling speed. In other words, in the pics the ball is rolling at a walking pace, or about 3 mph. The ball is being rolled left-to-right.
I then used the camera on auto-focus, no flash, no drag and focus. Next, I opened the drapes in the dining room (south side) to let in a little bit of light. This light did not reach the area where the ball was rolling but provided some light in the background about 14 feet away. Finally I tried it with the flash on. No retakes, no editing. What you see is what I got. I did resize the pics to 1200 px width and "saved for web" to reduce file size.
I'm not pleased with the results but I'm not bitter about it. I guess it's about what I thought would happen. The biggest concern is the shutter lag. I would get the ball in the center of the frame, tap the screen to take the shot, and then when I review the shot the ball is almost out of the picture.
Here we go....
Drapes closed, both sides of house.
In this shot, I tried to take the shot before the ball crossed in front of me. I was tracking the ball as evidenced by the background blur.
Now the drapes are open in the dining room providing some light from behind me.
This is probably the best shot of the bunch.
Finally, here's one with the drapes open and the flash on. The ball almost got out of the frame before the shot was taken and processed.
Conclusions: The shutter lag is terrible on this camera. If the light is low enough and/or the object being photographed is moving fast enough, you might get a picture of background only with no object in it. The thing about the 21MP camera is that there is enough "real estate" in the photos that you could crop out the parts of excessive background and end up with a decent shot. Like this:
But you shouldn't need to do this. Moto, fix the shutter lag, please!
I wonder how this experiment would play out with other phones, ones considered to have really good cameras, like the Apple 6 or Note 4. I suppose I could try my Maxx HD, but I'm certain the results would be worse.