Pin sharp

[englishpremier]

Is the Nikon D50 capable of achieving pin sharp photos when in perfect conditions?

Many of you guys on here are using FF cameras but there are are fair few crop guys about. A lot of the images I see posted are wickedly sharp and clear.

Obviously my camera more advanced than my skill level, but even browsing through images taken by many others with D50s none come close in sharpness to the types of images i see in these forums.

Is the camera just not up to it? Or is it because only beginners have bought it?

flickr - nikon d50 group

http://www.flickr.com/groups/nikond50/pool/

 

[englishpremier]

I can get decent quality images out of it, and i've seen some great shots online, but nothing i've seen taken with a D50 using either the kit lens or a prime is razor sharp.

The funny thing is I can't find any good example not that I come to search for them

 

[englishpremier]

I use Darktable on Linux. That has a sharpen setting that by default is

Radius 2.00
Amount 0.5
Threshold 0.04

I usually bump the Amount up to 2.0 (that is the max) and leave the Radius and Threshold alone, since i don't know what they do.