Nikon D90 Sharpness

Having used my Olympus E-410 for a couple of years, the sharpness of the pictures always impressed me. Of course this disappeared the moment it was used indoors. I was therefore looking forward to the quality of the images I was expecting from the D90. With its larger lens allowing in more light, bigger sensor, famous Active D-light ability and the fact the it did not use the four thirds system, I was pretty sure it would be superb (not to mention the extra 2 megapixels).

While the colours, and exposure were everything I was hoping for, the pictures were certainly not as sharp as I was expecting. In fact they were not as sharp as the Olympus. For six months I have assumed that this was just the way things were. But in the last week having done some research I have found out that there is a way to improve things and it does make quite a difference.

I had noted before suggestions from people that the sharpness could be increased in the menu. However I was reluctant to do this because Naively I thought this was changing the original image, whereas I wanted  the original to be sharp. However, when I stopped to think, I realised that the raw image probably was very sharp and it was simply the Nikons JPEG creator that was deciding what the default level of sharpness was. With this in mind I cranked up the sharpness by three and have been very pleased with the difference it made.

I will try and post some examples shortly.