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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stu78" data-source="post: 1232219" data-attributes="member: 26729">Yes, Christine the Kentish Plover does look nice and sharp in the previous pic. Here is a 100% crop of the unedited original shot and I'm sure you can see what a difference the pp makes. I always use the standard picture style so there was also some in-camera sharpening. I can't imagine what it would have looked like without the in-camera sharpening, probably not very good at all! I do think that it would have been sharper without the t/c, but I would have had to crop more so who knows if I would have got a better result with just the naked lens.I just looked at the exif and it was f5.6 (f8) and 1/1000 of a sec, so it was a lucky shot considering it was handheld at 560mm. I would not normally expect to get a sharp shot at this shutter speed! I also used -1ev but I think this was to try and avoid blowing out the highlights on the white neck. Obviously -1ev was not enough! I haven't noticed any overexposure in my other shots tho.</blockquote>