New LX7 not sharp enough, what am I doing wrong??

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Erik Ohlson
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Re: New LX7 not sharp enough, what am I doing wrong??
In reply to walkaround, 5 months ago

walkaround wrote:

Erik Ohlson wrote:

Turns out there WAS a setting problem: the little slider 'switch' on the left side of the lens mount, which reads: MF, AFmacro, and AF was in "MF" or "Manual Focus" position.

Ah... ok... you didn't focus your camera, yet I'm "inane" for mentioning it. Right!

Yeah, read the manual. Good call, except, IN THE MANUAL, the search "Manual Focus" yields this:

Just what I would have thought. And NO mention of that sneaky little switch on the lans.

Erik, seriously?

Page 9 is the diagram of the camera showing the switch. Page 104 is the section "Taking Pictures with Manual Focus".

Yes, seriously, when someone says they are having trouble focussing a camera, pointing out that the image is out of focus comes dangerously close to inanity.

I'm sure you aren't USUALLY inane, just slipped up here - after all more respondents missed the point entirely, too.

There are 229 pages to that manual, I missed that, and no one directly pointed it out, I finally found it myself.

I do apologize if you feel picked on: yours was just the most succinct response which missed the point, so I used it.

Most of the others were simply too long and missed even more points, or started in on favorite shibboleths, "RAW" , "oversharpened" &tc, for example.

I thank you for sticking to the discussion at hand which made me select your post for reply.

-Erik

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