How to get really sharp photos

Here are a series of photos showing full-framed image and then followed up with a crop 100% view of the same image.  If you want to enlarge your photos and have people admire them on the walls of your home or office, be sure they are in focus & sharp.

I used for this exercise a point and shoot camera. I used the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5 camera.  I made the photos of the same object handheld and then with a tripod.  Can you tell the difference in these bright sunlit photos?

Hand held full-frame

100% view of the image above (hand held)

Full framed shot using tripod

100% cropped view of the tripod image

Full frame of hand held photo

100% cropped view of the hand held

Full frame of Tripod photo

100% cropped view of the Tripod Image