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<blockquote data-quote="garyboy" data-source="post: 176446" data-attributes="member: 15710">Hi. This is my first post here but I want to tell you about a test I did on my camera which revealed soft focus at distance and need a pro explanation. Here is what I did. Using a tripod and remote shutter in daylight outside for clarity, a 55-200 lens, manual settings between 1/15 to 1/60th and f11 to f20&nbsp; I zoomed in fully with my digital zoom on the 5100 and did a perfect focus on a field of bushes and wheat. In the lcd viewer it was perfectly clear prior to shot. After shot, it was fairly clear but not exactly the same and much softer when again blown up/zoomed in to the same position in playback with the Nikon digital zoom.I used raw and also tried varying the shutter and f-stop to find any differances. Please explain why on a digital 23m camera, this is not the same pre shot in the viewer as compared to post shot? Why the loss of sharpness?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="garyboy, post: 176446, member: 15710"] Hi. This is my first post here but I want to tell you about a test I did on my camera which revealed soft focus at distance and need a pro explanation. Here is what I did. Using a tripod and remote shutter in daylight outside for clarity, a 55-200 lens, manual settings between 1/15 to 1/60th and f11 to f20 I zoomed in fully with my digital zoom on the 5100 and did a perfect focus on a field of bushes and wheat. In the lcd viewer it was perfectly clear prior to shot. After shot, it was fairly clear but not exactly the same and much softer when again blown up/zoomed in to the same position in playback with the Nikon digital zoom. I used raw and also tried varying the shutter and f-stop to find any differances. Please explain why on a digital 23m camera, this is not the same pre shot in the viewer as compared to post shot? Why the loss of sharpness? [/QUOTE]

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