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Originally Posted by ravenheart
On my 50D (should be the same on the 40D) you can manually adjust sharpness by going to picture style (IE standard/landscape/portrait.. etc) and then press Info to further adjust sharpness.
Having said that - alot of my pictures do have a hint of softness - so far though I have just attributed that to not knowing the camera and lenses fully. Some of the pics though turn out razor sharp so it is definatly my fumbling that is the cause  |
All DSLR's produce soft pics on purpose. It's by design so that you can process them any way you like after you've taken the pic. The logic being that if it's done in camera, you can't "undo it". On P&S cameras, the sharpening and saturation is cranked way up, so all pics come straight out of the camera very sharp and over saturated, and people have become accustomed to it.
Softness and low saturation are the 2 most common "complaints" of new DSLR owners. I was the same way when I bought my 10D, but a quick tutorial on unsharp mask in PS and a little "levels" and "curves" in PS and I was good to go. It also has to do with allowing you to adjust the settings to optimize the pics for printing on whichever photo printer you have, as they're all different.
one other thing, you can buy photoshop elements for under $100 instead of buying the full blown app, and it will allow you to sharpen and saturate the pics to your personal likes.
The 40 and 50 also allow you to maximize both in the camera settings, you might want to check that out as well. But remember, once you take the pic in JPEG format with the settings cranked, you can't undo them.
Hope this helps...