Help with Canon A85

[jejton]

I have the camera and I cant seem to get clear, crisp pictures of my tanks, even the non-fish ones. What settings should I be using?

 

[bad coffee]

Have you tried cleaning the lens?

First of all, try turning the dial to P instead of [] (the little green square.

Then go into settings.
Set White ballance to auto
set exposure to 0

take some pics of something outside. see how they turn out.

 

[jejton]

Thats how i usually use the camera and most photos come out just fine. I normally use a film SLR but then I would have to wait till the photos develop and then scan them and upload them so I'd obviously rather use this.

 

[bad coffee]

for the tank I'd go with Tv (shutter Priority) and set it around 250. You should get decent pics then.

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[jejton]

I normally use an SLR for photography (non-digital ) so I know about TV and AV settings. I dont think that the shutter speed is the problem though, because its not just that fish come out blurry. The whole photo comes out not crisp and clear. I though that maybe it is a problem with the light settings. I'll keep experimenting.