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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 149637" data-attributes="member: 13090">Since the default &quot;Sharpness&quot; setting for the D5100 is so low, I'm going to suggest you adjust it right off the bat. I know doing so made a really big difference in the image quality I got out of my D5100. Until I made this adjustment my images were always looking really soft.

To adjust this setting do the following:

Press MENU.
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Select SHOOTING MENU (camera icon on left).
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Click right (into the menu selections) and go down to the next page to:&nbsp; SET PICTURE CONTROL.
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Click right again to get into the four standard options then click down to STANDARD (might be called &quot;NORMAL&quot;, I forget which).
With &quot;NORMAL&quot; selected, click right again and you'll find sub-menus for adjusting lots of things like Brightness, Hue, etc. within the &quot;NORMAL&quot; selection.

The only thing I suggest you adjust here is the SHARPNESS setting, which will be set on something like -2. Bump that setting up to +7 and press &quot;OK&quot; to save the adjustment.


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[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 149637, member: 13090"] [LEFT]Since the default "Sharpness" setting for the D5100 is so low, I'm going to suggest you adjust it right off the bat. I know doing so made a really big difference in the image quality I got out of my D5100. Until I made this adjustment my images were always looking really soft. To adjust this setting do the following: Press MENU. [/LEFT] [LEFT]Select SHOOTING MENU (camera icon on left). [/LEFT] [LEFT]Click right (into the menu selections) and go down to the next page to: SET PICTURE CONTROL. [/LEFT] [LEFT]Click right again to get into the four standard options then click down to STANDARD (might be called "NORMAL", I forget which). With "NORMAL" selected, click right again and you'll find sub-menus for adjusting lots of things like Brightness, Hue, etc. within the "NORMAL" selection. The only thing I suggest you adjust here is the SHARPNESS setting, which will be set on something like -2. Bump that setting up to +7 and press "OK" to save the adjustment. [/LEFT] [/QUOTE]

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