Originally posted by UncleVanya A valiant expression of the theme! I love that you tried this on the Q. I think this may be worth a revisit.
Is the lack of sharpness just the lens not resolving enough for the high pixel density or is this the case of movement or lack of perfect focus?
I guess I was like a dog with a bone. although our cat's wouldn't like that expression.
I returned this morning with my seven-element Taukumar, but even before I left, I knew that the adapter shutter wasn't firing, and the pictures were blurry {probably motion blur} .... the one good thing from that adventure was my noticing this road, which is probably the remains of the railroad ROW, since power lines often share railroad ROW, and those who take over railroad land often re-use the gravel rather than move it.
So, this afternoon I returned a third time with a generic adapter. As is often the case with landscape photos, I used as narrow an aperture as I felt I could 'get away with' and focused to infinity, hoping that most of the image will be within DOF. At this point, I don't now what else to improve it, other than move to a coastal city or the mountains. I used a good lens, focused it as well as I could, and used as deep DOF as I could, while still minimizing diffraction.