I manually select the AF points and yes I use the center point to focus and yes I recompose, however when I take a shot of a 5 people standing next to each other and have selected all the right focus points and settings, I still find that the outer left and right are blurry. Yes your suggestion re: good read of the manual is warrant (which I have done over and over again, but will look at it again), I was hoping that anyone was going to tell me what I did right or wrong. Thanks anyway & I appreciate your input.