Despite the importance of the triaxiality failure diagram (TFD) for damage prediction, the quantitative influences of the gauge length L o and the frame rate f of the DIC (digital image correlation) system's camera on the necking strain ε u and the fracture strain ε f from tensile testing have hardly been dealt with. In this study, DP 980 sheets were subjected to uniaxial tensile, shear, and near plane strain conditions, and deformations were recorded by DIC. The investigation of the influence of varying L o and f on the ability to capture ε u and ε f accurately reveals the following: the influences on ε u is negligible; to avoid overly conservative values for ε f , it is essential to limit L o to the smallest value possible, i.e. the necking band width; the influence of f becomes relevant for low L o ; at a test velocity of 5 mm min −1 , f should not be lower than 10 frames per second (fps) (i.e. 120 frames mm −1 ) when using the minimum L o . Nonetheless, even with the minimum L o , ε f values are below those obtained on a local level by DIC. The TFDs for different f make clear that the influence of f holds also for other loading modes and is most pronounced for shear. Therefore, application in conjunction with a highspeed camera (10 fps) is necessary for the measurement of realistic parameters, which is critical to sheet forming analysis.