Sharpening in the M8 and/or C1 LE?

[dcoombs]

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I had read somewhere that one should reduce the sharpening feature in the M8 to low, as it didn't perform as well as PP programs. In C1 LE there is an option between soft and standard sharpness which has a material affect on the image on screen. Is that the best way to go?

 

I am still learning how to use C1, and PP in general, and would appreciate peoples' advice and experience regarding the alternative approaches.

 

Apologies if this was covered in earlier posts, but my searching the site only turned up a discussion from last January. Hopefully people have had more experience now.

 

Thanks, Doug

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[Shootist]

The sharpening, contrast, saturation and color management setting in the M8 menu is only for Jpg images. If you are shooting DNG/RAW then they have no affect on the image and in fact are greyed out.

 

When I do shoot Jpg, which is rare and usually only B&W, I set them all to standard and sRGB for color management.

[holgerf]

The sharpening, contrast, saturation and color management setting in the M8 menu is only for Jpg images. If you are shooting DNG/RAW then they have no affect on the image and in fact are greyed out.

 

When I do shoot Jpg, which is rare and usually only B&W, I set them all to standard and sRGB for color management.

 

Recommondation setting of sharpening:

 

I found that the NORMAL-Setting of sharpening may result in a very ugly "graininess" if you have fine structures like grass, paving stones, leaves or simular. It’s looking like black grain of sand, very unnaturally.

 

I found out that you avoid thie completely if you put the setting to LOW and - if necessary adjust some extra sharpening on your computer.

 

To give an qiock illustration I show you three 100%-crop-samples. Please look at the paving stones.

 

No 1 sample: sharpening set to HIGH, just to see the effect quickly (I know nobody would set HIGH)

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No 2 sample: sharpening set to STANDARD: graininess still visible

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No 3 sample: sharpening set to LOW: graininess nearly zero.

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Best

Holger

[hammam]

If you shoot Raw (DNG), as I think you do, since you're using C1 LE, in-camera sharpening has no effect, and neither do other image adjustments (they're not even accessible in Menu, unless you shooot DNG+jpeg, in which case they only affect the jpegs.). You do everything in PP, starting with conversion in C1. Others may have different views, but I limit adjustments in conversion software to basics (exposure, WB, some minor color or levels and contrast adjustments) and leave the fine-tuning (including sharpening, which should always be done at the very end of PP, anyway) to Photoshop.

 

YMMV. Hope it helps a little