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<blockquote data-quote="Marcel" data-source="post: 82722" data-attributes="member: 3903">Hi Jason and welcome to the forum.One thing that is easy to overlook is the fact that your S80 lens was certainly a shorter focal length. This means that the amount of Depth of Field was a lot large with your point and shoot. Second, point and shoot cameras usually apply a lot of sharpening to the pictures you take. Where the DSLRs are more neutral as far as saturation and sharpening. There is in the camera's menu settings that you should try to adapt to your taste if you are using jpegs. If you are using the raw settings, thinking that this will get you the best images out of the camera, you are wrong. Raw settings need to be post processed before they actually look like a picture. Many different softwares can do that for you, but you always have to decide what you want and, do the actual improving to the raw images.I have no idea of what your skills in post processing or photography are and I don't want to judge you, but maybe you didn't get the right camera for your needs. I tried to post process some of the shots on your &quot;sky drive&quot; and was able to get very nice images out of them. So, before you throw the camera away, try to learn a little more about how you can improve the results you don't like for now.Best of luck and enjoy your Nikon!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marcel, post: 82722, member: 3903"] Hi Jason and welcome to the forum. One thing that is easy to overlook is the fact that your S80 lens was certainly a shorter focal length. This means that the amount of Depth of Field was a lot large with your point and shoot. Second, point and shoot cameras usually apply a lot of sharpening to the pictures you take. Where the DSLRs are more neutral as far as saturation and sharpening. There is in the camera's menu settings that you should try to adapt to your taste if you are using jpegs. If you are using the raw settings, thinking that this will get you the best images out of the camera, you are wrong. Raw settings need to be post processed before they actually look like a picture. Many different softwares can do that for you, but you always have to decide what you want and, do the actual improving to the raw images. I have no idea of what your skills in post processing or photography are and I don't want to judge you, but maybe you didn't get the right camera for your needs. I tried to post process some of the shots on your "sky drive" and was able to get very nice images out of them. So, before you throw the camera away, try to learn a little more about how you can improve the results you don't like for now. Best of luck and enjoy your Nikon! [/QUOTE]

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