"John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There's a significant group of people who feel that the *ist-D is arguably the >*best* of the DSLRs in image sharpness. More is *not* synonymous with better.
Yep. Count me amongst them. I don't want my camera deciding how much sharpening to add (and what radius and threshold settings to use). >If you _want_ the significantly-sharpened-straight-out-of-the-camera you are >forced to accept from other DSLRs you can always crank the in-camera sharpening >up to the maximum value. For those with significant experience in digital imaging, this is one of the main reasons to favor the ist-D over any other DSLR. >But if you're going to do any sort of image editing >between exposure and print or display you're far better off turning sharpening >down (or, at the least, leaving it at the default setting) and applying any >sharpening filters as the final step. You have to (re-)sharpen anyway if you >resize the image, and there's no point in introducing extra sharpening artifacts. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
