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<blockquote data-quote="robbins.photo" data-source="post: 540462" data-attributes="member: 27043">A &quot;soft&quot; photo can be caused by a lot of things. Shutter speed being a common culprit. In general I recommend whenever possible you shoot at shutter speeds that are at a minimum twice the focal length of the lens you are using, which should eliminate any camera shake you might experience. Keep in mind if your subject is moving you might also need to up your shutter speed even more to cancel out motion blur depending on what your shooting.Keep in mind too that if you shoot in RAW you will most likely need to do some sharpening during post processing, since it's one of the things the camera does automatically for you when you shoot JPG.&nbsp; You might want to try some test shots using RAW+JPG so you can see the difference between the two.If you can post some sample images with EXIF data (shutter speed, ISO, focal length) that will help quite a bit in diagnosing the problem. I shoot a 7100 myself, trust me the camera is capable of producing very sharp images indeed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="robbins.photo, post: 540462, member: 27043"] A "soft" photo can be caused by a lot of things. Shutter speed being a common culprit. In general I recommend whenever possible you shoot at shutter speeds that are at a minimum twice the focal length of the lens you are using, which should eliminate any camera shake you might experience. Keep in mind if your subject is moving you might also need to up your shutter speed even more to cancel out motion blur depending on what your shooting. Keep in mind too that if you shoot in RAW you will most likely need to do some sharpening during post processing, since it's one of the things the camera does automatically for you when you shoot JPG. You might want to try some test shots using RAW+JPG so you can see the difference between the two. If you can post some sample images with EXIF data (shutter speed, ISO, focal length) that will help quite a bit in diagnosing the problem. I shoot a 7100 myself, trust me the camera is capable of producing very sharp images indeed. [/QUOTE]

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