> > They were jpegs straight from a 1DmkII. What settings in photoshop > should I use to help sharpen them up a bit ? >
Michael, The Unsharpen Mask Ken mentioned works well, however the amount of sharpening depends on how big the image is at the time of final viewing on monitor, you pretty much have go through some trial and error to figure out what you like the most. As for the image straight from the 1D Mk 2 being soft, it was also my biggest "complaint" when I first got the camera, but I quickly found out there is a valid reason for it, i.e. there is an anti-aliaising glass filter in front of the image sensor to purposely soften the square pixel corners of diagonal image details such that you don't see the "staircase" (aliasing) effect, as a result one must sharpen the image after the shot is taken especially if all in-camera parameters are at their minimum setting. You "could" bump up the sharpening parameter in the camera a bit, but be forewarned that it's infinitely easier to sharpen a soft image afterwards than to soften an image that has been sharpened too much from the in-camera processing. Ken * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
