Self-timer on Olympus e-500

[Plasmatic]

Hey everyone!

I've started trying to use the self-timer on my Olympus e-500, and it seems worse quality compared to ones not taken with the timer.

It's on a tripod, so it's totally steady. I took a photo of a my sister without the timer, it was fine, good quality etc. She stayed in the same place and everything and then we did it with both the 12 second and two second timer. Both came out really poor quality: blurry and dim.

Any ideas what to do?

 

[Willo]

Did you switch off IS? Also what shutter speed are you using?

 

[Almost_Invisible]

Does the E-500 have the option to lock the mirror up?
It could be mirror slap causing the blur.
The dimness will be down to the settings used. If you can get it not dim by hand holding then take a hand held one and set the same settings into it manually for the tripod shot.