Just goes to show you how little I really know how to operate this camera. Turns out I had it set at 1600 (!) ISO even though I swore I went in and set it at 200. It’s also clear how hard it is really tell any detail on the built in LCD. I’m going to chalk this up as a learning experience and consider these worthy enough for the web only. There’s always next year.
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That’s very unfortunate.
Wrong settings do happen. Just like smudges on the lens from somebody else handling the camera to take a photo of you. You don’t see it on the lcd and if the camera focuses fine, you don’t think about it.