I am using a digital camera for model pics for the first time. I am using a Sony MVC-FD73 camera, I have two light sources (one per side) both shielded with white paper to cut the glare, and a neutral seamless background. The photos are not coming out extremely sharp and much of the detail is lost. Is it the quality of the camera or am I doing somethimg else wrong? I even tried backing away from the subject and using telephoto feature. This helped some, but not much. You can see examples at the gallery below. Any advice is welcomed.

Gino,
Three tips.
1.) Use a tripod.
2.) Shoot outdoors in daylight if possible.
3.) Use the macro-focus setting (it looks like a flower ussually). This will allow precise focus at close range (18" and under).

Other things that can help are longer exposures (tripod a MUST for this). I am not that experianced with this though.

Cheers,
Jim

Gino, I checked out your pics as well and concur with Jim. Try some outside shots to use natural light and either try a tripod or try and steady your camera better-some of the pics looked blurry.