The JPEG produced with the camera on all default settings is designed
to be sharpened enough for direct printing to a 4x6-5x7 print. As
such it at one and the same time is overly sharpened for editing and
soft (loss of detail crispness due to saturation and contrast gain at
the edges). Setting JPEG settings for "Natural" color balance and
large gamut (Adobe RGB) improves the detail resolution somewhat ... I
find I generally don't need to change the sharpening parameter, but I
do adjust the contrast parameter depending upon the scene.
That it, when I make JPEGs in camera. None of these settings is of
any relevance when storing RAW ... they just provide the defaults for
preview and Camera Raw to start with if you use the As Shot selection
in RAW processing.
Moving the sharpening parameter to the minimum setting doesn't turn
sharpening "off", just pushes the parameter value down to near the
RAW conversion neutral point.
Godfrey
On Oct 16, 2005, at 3:56 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
I'd have to disagree with that statement. The "standard issue"
JPEG from
the istDS seems overly sharp to me, and as noted in another post, I
set the
sharpening to the lowest setting (off?)
Shel
[Original Message]
From: Boris Liberman
The most serious weakness of (all?) Pentax DSLRs is rather soft and
generally poor quality of JPG straight out of the camera. But if you
resolve to shoot RAW - you'll be just fine.
