Thanks for the input everyone.
Slightly concerned though if I cannot get a sharp image at anything smaller than f5.6, all I have ever read about landscape talks about f 16 & 22 for landscape dof. I realise many of these 'guru's shoot film or even large or medium format, but people must have success with digital at these apertures or surely there would be warnings about it??

Have to admit to being on a bit of a low about it at the moment.

I suppose I should use the tripod more at these shutter speeds, however regards sharpening I understand what you mean and am using Martin Evenings book and have been working through some of the techniques like unsharp mask and High Pass Filter etc. Howvere i have also read that stock agencies do not allow sharpening so have been avoiding this in case i ever go that route. So if they dont acept sharpening, when should you use it?

Thanks
Steve

I am lead to believe that if you use a polariser at wide angles you need to reduce the amount of polarising by only partially rotating the filter?

I have here a few examples of what I am experiencing, first is the original, downsized of course.

[IMG]http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f396/Hannabella/MinesofSpain-119.jpg[/IMG]

I opened in Camera Raw and saved as a 16bit Tiff. Minimal PP just a tiny bit on levels a slight increase in red saturation and a tiny bit in highlights shadows.
I then changed to 8 bit and upsized to 300ppi using Bicubic Smoother.

But I dont think the problem lies in Photoshop. Its either me or the gear.

Here are 3 100% zoomed crops and as you can see, not very sharp.
The images were taken with K20d DA 12-24 lens at f14 at 1/60th Handheld

Opinions?

[IMG]http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f396/Hannabella/crop1.jpg[/IMG]


[IMG]http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f396/Hannabella/crop2.jpg[/IMG]


[IMG]http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f396/Hannabella/crop3.jpg[/IMG]

Better Stefan very nice
I understand your purist point and you should always get as perfect as possible 'in camera' but I agree with Galoot and just because you missed a few flecks of dust on the chair why let it spoil a good image?

Lame
So now the police can move any photographer on under the guise of preventing a breach of the police.

Be aware that the IR remotes cannot be locked off and you have to continually press the button on them. Also if you slightly move the remote off the line of site it will close the shutter.
This may not be a problem for you, but it was for me so I went for the C-205 cable release in the end.

Well I have done a couple of testshots and the Multiple exposure didnt time out. Must have been my error working in the dark.

Nice picture by the way

Pretty sure thats what I got. I will have to spend some time experimenting with it

Its a very useful feature this mutiple exposure. It is useful for me underground, however when I tried it I set it to 9 exposures but only got about 3 on the final image.....
Does anybody know if there is any kind of time limit between exposures or anything that will reset it before actually exposing 9 times?