Handheld, 1/160 F4.5, of course IS on.
Sadly I am not used to keep my originals as you know, but usually with such relatively quick speed the originals are perfectly sharp.
I don't know, all of a sudden the pics seem just "soft", rarely really sharp, even at 1/250 and faster, and even if I have shaky hands, I never had problems above 1/100...
As for the color, contrast and general light in the shots, yes, I fucked up the manual settings and they are a bit burned
Also, something weird: when in aperture priority, in the past the camera was able to perfectly judge the speed. now I always shoot in manual but in Monza out of curiosity I tried aperture mode again, and I was surprised the camera was always underexposing EVERY shot and by quite some margin, just picking high speeds as it never did before...
And in the past I was using that mode a lot and never noticed it.
Maybe I just want a 30D and trying to convince myself this 350D is crap