I love my old sony a5000. But as I get my toes wetter with techniques and tutorials and editing, I often think it is not so great anyome.

Please see this: https://imgur.com/a/XPLLBmx This is the RAW file open in RawTherapee, with no processing applied beyond the camera specific distortion corrections.

It was a sunny day. I have my ISO set to auto. The picture is not blurry because of long exposure or anything, but it’s simply not clear and sharp. Granted, that’s a lot of zooming on the software editor, but shouldn’t it be sharper?

What am I doing wrong? Any advice would be appreciated!

  • SkoomaDentist@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You shot this image VERY wide and are cropping in substantially on a 20MP image.

    And they are pixel peeping at around 5x pixel magnification which will make even a small amount of noise look much worse than it would at 1:1 crop.