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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eye-level" data-source="post: 41768" data-attributes="member: 6548">This is pretty interesting because I have always thought of the D90 to be a solid rig I have never heard of the soft focus issue and for that matter I cannot imagine any modern digital camera shooting soft. I know AF systems can be tricked sometimes but that just doesn't make much sense to me. Perhaps this could be chalked up to my limited experience with digital. All I know is every Nikon and Canon DSLR (including the D90) that I have ever used was razor sharp nearly 100% of the time.With regard to the D90 I would wager that whenever a D90 shoots soft it is because of the lens or some other factor not the sensor!As Glenn mentioned above a slow shutter speed and camera shake will get you every time. Also the wide open thing. Why do so many people insist on shooting wide open? I suppose it is because of OOF and bokeh effects but there is hardly a lens made that can perform at its full potential wide open not to mention the typically hair thin DOF the wide open aperture setting entails. I am really coming up against this with the last roll of film I have shot using the 50/1.8 lens. I shot about half a roll yesterday at lunch with the family clan. Since we were indoors it metered out at F1.8 with a shutter set at 60. Nearly every shot was bunk OOF...now this may be due to my new focusing screen which I am getting used to but it is more likely to be the wide open aperture and low shutter speed.  I would have probably done better shooting at F2.8 and 30!Photography seems so straightforward and easy but really it is convoluted and maddeningly frustrating and exhilirating at the same time...</blockquote>

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