> > One of the criticisms that I heard about the *ist D was that the > pictures were soft. I guess shooting in RAW mode takes that away, as the > colors on the car and the amount of detail are very pleasing to me.
You can't really judge sharpness on a downsized (900x600) jpeg image. The colour is nice - that A400 is definitely a very nice piece of glass. And Paul has a very good eye for light - did you see his recent Bel-Air? The images I put up recently <http://jfwaf.com/MH2004/> were all shot on the *ist-D using best-quality JPEG (I would usually have switched to RAW for the F1 car, but it was an unscheduled appearance and I forgot). There are a couple of then (the 250TR, for one) that I'm going to try printing at 13x19. If they're sharp and/or detailed enough for that, I'm happy. Caveat: I hang my prints on the wall - I don't pore over them with a loupe. Perhaps I'm too easily satisfied.
