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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 373566" data-attributes="member: 13090"><p>As a general rule, a guideline, primes are typically sharper; sometimes a little sometimes a lot. As with most things in photography, "it depends". The 35mm f/1.8G on your 35mm will produce very sharp images, but so will many zooms lenses.</p><p></p><p>Another thing to consider is if you're shooting JPG or RAW. If you are shooting JPG and you haven't adjusted the "Sharpness" setting in the camera's Picture Control menu, you absolutely need to. Making this *one* little adjustment will have a huge impact on the sharpness of your JPG photos. For reasons unknown the default setting is strangely low and bumping it up to +7 will really improve the image quality.</p><p><span style="color: white">....</span><p style="margin-left: 20px">Press the Menu button and go in to the Shooting Menu (Camera icon).</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Scroll down to "Set Picture Control" and press "OK".</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">From the Picture Control menu select the setting you want to use, most people use "Standard" here, I like Landscape a lot, but choose the one you use by highlighting it and click right one time to enter the menu for that particular Picture Control.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Highlight the "Sharpness" slider and move it from the oddly low default setting to +7.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Press OK and exit the menus.</p><p></p><p>In the "Standard" picture control I also adjust the "Saturation" slider to +1. That's a personal preference but you might want to try it and see what you think. If you use other Picture Controls (Vivid, Portrait, etc.) you will need to go into the menus for each one individually and adjust the Sharpness and other settings. Again, this one adjustment in your menus will make a huge difference in the quality of your JPG images. If you shoot RAW, the sharpening is entirely up to you of course.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ffffff">....</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 373566, member: 13090"] As a general rule, a guideline, primes are typically sharper; sometimes a little sometimes a lot. As with most things in photography, "it depends". The 35mm f/1.8G on your 35mm will produce very sharp images, but so will many zooms lenses. Another thing to consider is if you're shooting JPG or RAW. If you are shooting JPG and you haven't adjusted the "Sharpness" setting in the camera's Picture Control menu, you absolutely need to. Making this *one* little adjustment will have a huge impact on the sharpness of your JPG photos. For reasons unknown the default setting is strangely low and bumping it up to +7 will really improve the image quality. [COLOR=white]....[/COLOR][INDENT]Press the Menu button and go in to the Shooting Menu (Camera icon). Scroll down to "Set Picture Control" and press "OK". From the Picture Control menu select the setting you want to use, most people use "Standard" here, I like Landscape a lot, but choose the one you use by highlighting it and click right one time to enter the menu for that particular Picture Control. Highlight the "Sharpness" slider and move it from the oddly low default setting to +7. Press OK and exit the menus.[/INDENT] In the "Standard" picture control I also adjust the "Saturation" slider to +1. That's a personal preference but you might want to try it and see what you think. If you use other Picture Controls (Vivid, Portrait, etc.) you will need to go into the menus for each one individually and adjust the Sharpness and other settings. Again, this one adjustment in your menus will make a huge difference in the quality of your JPG images. If you shoot RAW, the sharpening is entirely up to you of course. [COLOR=#ffffff]....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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