I agree with most comments. Pictures are getting better but focus still seems soft to me. Make sure you lens is clean. The only other thing that seems "weird" to me is that you are using exposure compensation on manual. Just change the settings by 1.7....in your case change the shutter speed. Keep your aperature between f11 and f16. Its a little more work, but shoot in raw and then adjust the white balance is your software. Also adding just a touch of sharpening in the software will be needed if you shoot raw...and could be beneficial with the shots you are taking now.
So I should not be using exposure compensation?
I changed the settings to shoot RAW.
And I'll change the aperture and try it again.
It is a good thing the film is free.
For manual mode you don't need exposure compensation. You'd use E.C for the automatic and semi automatic modes where you want to lighten or darken the picture over what the camera determined to be the correct exposure.
In manual mode, you set the aperture and shutter speed manually to get the exposure you want. For pens, you want some of the higher numbered aperture settings as mentioned for greater depth of field, then adjust the shutter speed to get the exposure at the level you want. Take the settings you last used for A & S and leave the aperture alone, then adjust shutter speed, one increment at a time for each shot, and take a series of shots from 2 or 3 steps above to two or three steps below that initial setting. This is called "Bracketing". Then look at series on your computer and determine which one provides the light levels and color saturation that's most appealing to you.
The RAW mode has to do with how the camera save the image file, and unless your and advanced photographer, I wouldn't mess with it personally. Drop down to the next lower setting and save them as a .JPG image file. They'll be much smaller in size and have enough image info for you until you go pro. :wink:
Also: IMHO you may want to stop and tweak your white balance a little more before proceeding to the perfect exposure level. I notice, from you last picture, that it still has a pink-ish cast, which would indicate you might not have the correct setting for the lights your using yet. And as mentioned, you need to have all lights of the same type, or you'll have much difficultly trying to find the sweet spot.
Get these settings right and you won't have to worry so much about corrections in software after the fact. Just in the old days of using film, I prefer to get a good of a picture as I can from the camera, saving the need for a lot of post-processing corrections later.
I'm guessing your D80's settings menus are pretty close to the same as my D40, so I'll try to help as much as I can since I'm just getting mine dialed in.