On 9 Aug 2003 at 17:26, Butch Black wrote: > There was a thread about the lack of sharpness on the *ist-d sample > pictures. One of the things that is open for debate is should sharpening be done > in camera or in post processing. I prefer too little vs.. too much in camera > sharpening as the control in Photoshop is usually much better. The thing that > did bother me was that there were no bold colors in any of the samples. It > reminded me of when the Sigma came out and all the examples for a long while > were pastels and muted colors. Again, however, it is easier and probably better > to add saturation and/or contrast in Photoshop then to try and tone down an > overly saturated image. I am glad to see that they are offering Adobe RGB as a > color space option as it has a much larger gamut then sRGB.
The fact that the first two samples were shot at f16 and f20 isn't optimal for sharpness but I think what bothers me about the images is a strange lack of consistency in the rendering of edges (considering the probable DOF of the images). Also it would have been nice to see some sample images in Adobe RGB the sample images are sRGB. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
