A70 soft images

[plural_bat]

Hi,

I have trouble with landscape images, whereby the horizon (or anything past about 40 m away) is either out of focus or just very soft (I'm not sure which).

The foreground tends to be in focus and noce and clear and crisp.

There's an unmodified example shot included. As you can see, the foreground is nicely in focus but the trees further away are very soft. I've tried this type of shot in various modes / with without a tripod and using manual focus and nothing really improves things.

Any help or idea would be great. Thanks

http://popyomics.biol.soton.ac.uk/~nat/downloads/lyza/Cannon%20019.jpg

[patul]

AFAIK, that's one of A70 cons.. distant trees & objects are pixelated.. I did hit by the same problems.. Use tele also doesnt solve the problem. But seems ok to me since I prefer macro shots.