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i have this lens and i am really losing faith with it if anyone on here has 1 could you please show me some pics with exif so i can try and see what i am doing wrong
Took this with same lens.....any good to you?
i would have to go looking through to find anything with a lower aperture so bare with me on that
would you recomend av instead of tv then? and drop the iso as i do tend to stay above 400
I'm a Nikon person, so not sure of what AV and TV equate to - presumably aperture priority and shutter priority?
I'd try again with a mid sized aperture - or set something up that you can take loads of shots with various different settings and compare them to see which offers the best sharpness - don't forget you can add a little sharpness in post processing.
As for ISO, I guess that's more of a personal thing and also depends on how your camera copes with it - my D200 doesn't cope with anything higher than 400ISO, and I tend to stick with 100 for the most part where I can. The D40 handles it a little better and is acceptable up to 800ish. I hate noise/grain (unless I'm looking for a specific effect) so lower the better as far as I'm concerned.
The shot you posted looks like it was a pretty bright day with little cloud cover, so you could easily have lowered the ISO, which would have allowed you to choose a larger aperture and/or faster shutter speed.
It's normally the other way around - the JPEG should be sharper, and richer in colour as it will probably have had some amendments "in camera" to make the picture more acceptible to the eye. RAW is exactly that - the raw data as seen by the sensor, and therefore will need sharpening and possible colour enhancements in post processing...well thanks for everyones help i have been out today and had a play with a few settings and shot in raw+jpeg setting and i can see the difference between the 2 the raw is a lot sharper than the jpeg and is a lot richer in colour
It's normally the other way around - the JPEG should be sharper, and richer in colour as it will probably have had some amendments "in camera" to make the picture more acceptible to the eye. RAW is exactly that - the raw data as seen by the sensor, and therefore will need sharpening and possible colour enhancements in post processing...