Scattered Thoughts . . .

I was on a search, deep into my archived hard drive, for a specific old photo yesterday morning (I don't even remember what I was searching for because my mind was distracted by other photos while searching!) and I came across a folder of photos that I never did anything with at the time because I was frustrated with the whole shoot on that day. What I do remember is that I was pretty disgusted with the quality of the photos coming out of this camera and I do have to say that I was absolutely right to be disgusted and frustrated.  Part of the problem was that this camera always captured less-than-sharp photos.  I don't know if it was a sensor issue or an image stabilization issue but I know the camera consistently captured less-than-sharp photos.  I have recently learned that another culprit of the lack of sharpness was the supposedly "outstanding" lens I was using.  This lens was touted as being an outstanding lens but I never got outstanding results from it. ...