I use both cards to shoot JPG and RAW at the same time and always use a shutter speed 1.5 + due to it being DX.
Okay, good... Because that will help a LOT.
I have not used the Manage Picture Control setting.
If you shoot JPG's you really should look into this; making this one in-camera adjustment will have a big impact on the overall sharpness of your JPG photos. Here's what you do...
Press the Menu button, scroll down and highlight the "Shooting Menu" (the camera icon).
Click right one time, scroll down and highlight the "Set Picture Control" menu and click right one more time.
Scroll down and highlight "Standard" and the click right one time.
From this menu, increase the "Sharpness" setting from the strangely low default setting to "+7" and increase "Saturation" one notch to the right (+1, essentially).
Press the "OK" button save these changes and back out of the menus.
Almost forgot too mention that each Picture Control (Standard, Landscape, Vivid, etc.) will have its own set of sub-menus and Controls, and each one will need to have the Sharpness setting adjusted individually, assuming you use them.
As for RAW image files, those need to be sharpened during post-processing. There are many ways to sharpen a shot and how you go about it will depend on what software you have to do your post processing and what the final output will be (a print, for instance, versus being viewed online). Searching Google for tutorials on how to sharpen a RAW file should give you no end of results.
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