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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 321073" data-attributes="member: 13090">I've looked at your photos and overall they don't look bad but to my eye they look do look a little soft. Are you shooting JPG? If so, I wonder if you don't need to adjust the in-camera Sharpness setting. To find out, go into your camera menus and go into the &quot;Shooting&quot; menu (green camera tab). Using the four-way button go into the &quot;Picture Control&quot; menu and then into &quot;Set Picture Control&quot;. I suggest using &quot;Standard&quot; here but &quot;Landscape&quot; is a good second choice. Choose the one you want to use and then click left once to enter the settings menu for that Picture Control. See the &quot;Sharpness&quot; setting? Adjust it to +6 and press &quot;OK&quot; and exit the menus. This one setting will have a very big impact on the overall sharpness of your JPG photos and for reasons I do not even begin to understand, this setting is set very, very low on all Nikon cameras as they come from the factory.Since you're not posting photos here, we can't see the EXIF data which would tell us important things like what focal length vs. shutter speed you were using, or what ISO you were at when you took the shot. These factors can also have a very big impact on sharpness. One last thing to consider would be a monopod. A monopod will give you a huge amount of stability when shooting (and stability is crucial to good focus and overall sharpness), but they have almost no footprint, unlike a tripod. Monopods are also signifcantly cheaper and easier to tote around than tripods....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 321073, member: 13090"] I've looked at your photos and overall they don't look bad but to my eye they look do look a little soft. Are you shooting JPG? If so, I wonder if you don't need to adjust the in-camera Sharpness setting. To find out, go into your camera menus and go into the "Shooting" menu (green camera tab). Using the four-way button go into the "Picture Control" menu and then into "Set Picture Control". I suggest using "Standard" here but "Landscape" is a good second choice. Choose the one you want to use and then click left once to enter the settings menu for that Picture Control. See the "Sharpness" setting? Adjust it to +6 and press "OK" and exit the menus. This one setting will have a very big impact on the overall sharpness of your JPG photos and for reasons I do not even begin to understand, this setting is set very, very low on all Nikon cameras as they come from the factory. Since you're not posting photos here, we can't see the EXIF data which would tell us important things like what focal length vs. shutter speed you were using, or what ISO you were at when you took the shot. These factors can also have a very big impact on sharpness. One last thing to consider would be a monopod. A monopod will give you a huge amount of stability when shooting (and stability is crucial to good focus and overall sharpness), but they have almost no footprint, unlike a tripod. Monopods are also signifcantly cheaper and easier to tote around than tripods. [COLOR=#FFFFFF]...[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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