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I bought a D80 a month back and really have problems with it and tend to use the my older D50.
I get a lot of blurr in photographs

I know the first photograph is busy but what are the right settings to capture correctly

through the viewfinder they all have a centre focus point

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Well, you need to have a higher shutter speed so stop the motion blur, probably something like 1/200 or higher.

There are a few ways to achieve this but probably the easiest is to use shutter priority and auto ISO.

edit: just to say that 1/500 would be preferable but you may struggle to get decent exposure at that shutter speed (you'd need a fast lens or to ramp up the ISO pretty high), I find 1/200 stops most motion blur but you'll still get some. As with all things photography, it's a compromise between the situation and the kit you have.
 
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Your first shot Mark was taken at 1/50 and a focal length of 300mm, shot #2 was at 1/200. Normaly you would aim to get your shutter speed up to and beyond the focal length you are using at the time. For 300mm=1/300 or more, 400mm =1/400 or more. You can take the shot at a slower speed for static subjects but with these on the move then you might want to think about going twice as much as those two quotes I gave. You were at F5.6 so your only alternative would be to ramp the ISO up as far as you are comfortable with.
 
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Markvs said:
I bought a D80 a month back and really have problems with it and tend to use the my older D50.
I get a lot of blurr in photographs
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User error.

Use a faster shutter speed as others have said.

Seems to be a lot of these threads lately.. blaming cameras for user error. If you used the same shutter speeds on your D50 it would have done exactly the same thing: A shutter speed is a shutter speed regardless of the camera.
 
Be a little bit careful with high ISOs - take some test shots to see how high you can take it before the noise gets too intrusive. At a guess, 800 should be OK but much higher will get a bit too much.
 
Pookeyhead said:
User error.

Use a faster shutter speed as others have said.

Seems to be a lot of these threads lately.. blaming cameras for user error. If you used the same shutter speeds on your D50 it would have done exactly the same thing: A shutter speed is a shutter speed regardless of the camera.
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But then this is the Basics forum...
 
Markvs said:
up to 1/1000 shutter speed
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Much better. Now that you got the hang of shutter speed try to use it creatively. You can slow the shutter just enough to blur the wings of the the bird enough to give it a sense of motion. This is the fun part. There is so much more than just freezing a subject in time.
 
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