Very Nice Shot!
Exactly what I am trying to do but I am not even trying to get these speeds. I have dog thats walking and even auto doesn't freeze a simple shot. My NEX stopped most pictures on auto. The camera chooses settings that are worse than a p&s results. I'm still learning the ropes of posting pictures and spent about 10 minutes to get a photo posted needed to show you how my picture ends up.

Please don't quote EVERY line of someone's post if it's a huge one..,it's a pain to have to scroll through. Can you only quote the revelent lines and delete the rest?

The outdoor setting comes from an old rule in photography it's called The Sunny 16 Rule.

On sunny days:
aperture = 16
shutter speed = reciprocal of the ISO

And you'll be fine shooting stuff in the direct sun. This is a good way to check your meter as well.

Good Luck and Good Shooting,
Gary

PS- We all except to see some of your images up here real soon.
G

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Critiquing my images is welcomed and greatly appreciated.

Stop trying to freeze action with auto. This is not a point & shoot. Go to shutter mode and set the shutter speed high enough than take a picture. It's pretty simple, you are making this way too complicated by asking about different lenses and trying to get the camera to magically take the picture for you.

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Gary
You've helped me a lot. Thank you
Just need to learn how to upload picture here. I have not participated in forums much. The support I got from this forum is excellent.

Bcasilis,
I know its not a point & shoot I was making an observation that it didn't produce results as good as a point & shoot I expect better results. I thought a better lens with a higher aperture would help improve the quality of the pictures. Kit lenses aren't always the best IMO.

@alkhalifa

Here's how to upload pictures here to this forum:
How to post images in forum threads

Fljoe, Thank you

Gary & Carl B

The picture here is how my auto works most of the time. Now that I testing using the auto I hope to produce better results. It wasn't as dark as in the picture. The screen shot shows you the details of the picture on the side. Its shots like this with auto that made me worry about my OMD being the wrong choice. Haven't had the chance to go out to take picture but I will try some tips soon and come back with the results. The first shot is from my OMD and the second is from my NEX. Don't mind the time the time was not set on both. You can see why I was worried about the pictures from my OMD. This is where I thought that the problem may be from the lens.

Images are way too small to say for sure. But the first looks to be focused behind the dog and unless you are tracking the dog 1/80 is way too slow to get a clear picture. The second picture is 1/500 and looks sharp on the dogs eye. I don't see a problem there. I see nothing wrong with the camera or the lens in either of these. You can't expect a misfocused picture at too slow a speed to look as good as one properly focused at a correct shutter speed.

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that looks to be a pretty low light image, squinting i can see the exif data:

iso 800, f5.6, 1/80 .... all while panning trying to follow a dog.

there's your blurry recipe right there

Sorry about the size, just placed bigger ones tried to attach the biggest I can. The issue is surely the slow shutter speed but I also have an issue where many come out like this. The only brighter one is the NEX auto shot which seems to have chosen the best settings. Again sorry to bring this up but my only issue is that yes this is not a P&S but I would expect it to figure the best settings. These are single shots.





I think I have made too many repetitions just wanted to show that there are differences in the pictures produced between both in the same auto settings where one camera can choose better settings than the other "most of the time" while the other was mostly getting it wrong. Not sure if it is the quality of the kit lens or issues with the camera.

Thanks to everyone for their help!!!