On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Ryan Charron wrote: > How can you judge the image sharpness on the *ist D > until you change the setting to maximum sharpness? > That's the first setting I changed since I like things > nice and sharp, then I tone it down in Photoshop if > need be.
The sharpness control in the camera is software, not hardware. If you tone it down later you will get worse results then if you shoot soft and increase sharpness in Photoshop. You can see this if you go into Photoshop and increase shaprness and then try to remove it. Adding sharpness usually increases any digital noise and when you take it too far it can create halos and other artifacts around areas of high contrast. alex
