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Message: <blockquote data-quote="robertvelasco" data-source="post: 3739392" data-attributes="member: 146696">Humming Birds, in Tucson, Az.Hello there, you across the lake.  I too have just acquired a Canon G3x and I am enjoying it immensely.  I have looked at your pictures and now I am very curious.  Would it be possible for you to share your camera settings?  I see you are achieving a much more detailed focus than I am and I am trying very hard to sharpen my pictures without post processing.  I prefer to shoot my pictures as best a can and not do much post processing other than to crop and notate my pictures for future reference.  One of the features that I am most enjoying is that the camera has a digital teleconverter feature.  Are you using this?  As far as I can tell, I am getting a picture at twice the distance with no loss in f stop or shutter speed.  With or without, I am getting the pictures with exactly the same settings regardless of magnification.  I do not think this is the same for digital zoom which I am avoiding because I can not hold the camera steady enough for this to work for me.  Frankly, even with the digital converter set to on, I am having difficulty hand holding this little camera.  Up to now, my birding camera was a Nikon D610 with a Sigma 150-500 mm zoom lens.  That set up is huge compared to the G3x so you can understand why I have to relearn to hand hold while shooting.  Looking forward to your response.</blockquote>