@pegelli - That's what I'm noticing. Shots that I thought were sharp on 35mm or even an APS are now exhibiting a much shallower depth of field, and therefore, not properly in focus! On a similar but slightly different note, I'm finding the much touted camera stabilization still doesn't let me shoot hand held under 1/80th and maintain a sharp image.
Well, maybe if you print the picture and look at the same normal viewing distance as you did with a film based picture of the same frame size I would think the difference will be gone. The dof at a fixed "circle of confusion" is set by optical formulas and should be independent from the medium used (film vs. digital sensor)
On your other note I am getting good results with my in-body stabilization, but it's a percentage game. I cannot guarantee that every shot is tack sharp, but if I take a few there's usually one or two very sharp that would have all been blurry without the stabilization.
Look at this pic below, 1/15sec handheld at 200 mm on APS-C. I took 5 shots in rapid succession (not a burst at 5fps, but just a succession of single frames while trying to brace myself as good as I can every time I press the shutter), 3 were blurred, 2 were good and this was the best. Not bad I would think (also for ISO 2000 w/o anything but the default Lightroom Noise reduction, but ETTR with about -1 EV exposure compensation). So by the time I get in the grey or black zone (longer than 1/focal length) I just take many shots and discard the bad ones. All I need is a big memory card, that's all.
