Re: Fun with MF images - Part 3
I only see the softness in the third one, which was taken wide open with the Hasselblad 110mm f/2, and is focused slightly too far forward. My adapter doesn't go to infinity, something I have to remedy soon. The second one is not so sharp at 100%, but already at 50% it looks fine. The first one is razor-sharp even at full size, but f/8 doesn't carry the sharpness all the way from the top to the bottom. I focused at the top, where every pixel is sharp
I managed to leave home, on this our first trip with our baby daughter, without bringing my tripod, but these are taken at around 1/500s handheld, so that ought to be enough. I am not sure what I did wrong in the second one, which should have been sharp even at full size. Synapse blowout.
I decided to treat the whole trip as a test and learning phase for the back, which I got the Thursday before we left. Not having a tripod I couldn't pay the kind of attention to the images that I did with my film cemetary series, and anyway, with daughter and girlfriend waiting (im-)patiently for every shot, it wasn't really conducive to perfectionist manoevres.
I don't do any special sharpening, except during conversion to DNG, and I specifically don't do any sharpening after downsizing, so maybe that is it?