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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2230548, member: 1892&quot;]Set aperture at f/8 and forget it. That will maximize the available depth of field, the lack of which at f/5.6 might be convincing you is a focus problem. Apertures narrower than f/8 will be diffraction-limited and cost you sharpness that way. Give autofocus a shot as well - I&#039;ve no Nikon experience but I&#039;ve had multiple Canon combinations using their 100mm Macro and not even slabs fooled its&#039; autofocus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your D90 will provide professional results at least to ISO400 and likely ISO800. ISO is not the concern with digicams it was 10 years ago; noise-reduction routines in camera and postprocessing software are far more sophisticated these days. This will help exposure times. As long as you&#039;re not triggering the shutter manually, you can go as slow as 1/8 or even slower and still get a stable shot.</p><p><br /></p><p>Which leads me to the solution to your visual challenge - tethering software so you can run the show from your keyboard/mouse and focus onscreen rather than in that tiny LCD (a problem for me and I&#039;m 15 years younger than you <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ). Nikon does not offer the free tethering software which Canon does (did?), but there are a couple possibilities far cheaper than Nikon&#039;s $180 version, Camera Control Pro 2:</p><p><br /></p><p>Camera RC: full-feature 30-day trial, $20 to own.</p><p><br /></p><p>TetherPro from Oxford Eye, currently $24.99</p><p><br /></p><p>ControlMyNikon (not completely compatible with the D90 unless they&#039;ve updated)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not linking because I don&#039;t know the convention around here; Googling the name of the software will bring it up.</p><p><br /></p><p>After all that, there are yet more improvements to be had via shooting RAW, but that&#039;s an additional layer of learning which ought to be added onto the knowledge you gain from these questions; it&#039;s probably counterproductive to learn it simultaneously.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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