Clear pictures - help requiered

Actually I don't think those look too bad at all. Even a little bit of post processing should bring out some clarity, contrast and shaprness in the first one.

The lamp post on the right looks quite sharp to me, so the only thing is see in your camera settings that might help would be to close down the aperture to say, f/8 or f/10 or therabouts to get more depth of field. The shutter speed looks plenty fast enough to overcome any camera shake, especially at that focal length.

I don't know what AF point you used, maybe the center one and you recomposed the shot? If that's the case, and the camera tried to focus on something with less contrast (foliage, the gray part of the building, etc.) that could cause a focusing "problem." At the same time, if you used all the focus points (not just a single one) the camera will probably focus on the closest high-contrast object....maybe not the one you wanted to focus on.

Again, I don't see a really big problem here, at least nothing that can't be corrected pretty easily. Just my thoughts on looking at these two photos.

Nick

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