Best sharpening settings for Capture One

[Michafoto]

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Hi, has anyone got any suggestions what sharpening settings work well for the Leica Q in Capture One? Anything that I could save as default for a fast workflow? Thank you...

[Iduna]

Michafoto,

 

welcome to the forum!

 

I have no experience with Capture One. But all converters work similarly. The RAW file itself can be quite soft when coming out of the camera. Mostly a preset of 20% is advisable and being good enough to work with. I work with very little clarityin addition and if necessary adjust microcontrast where necessary at the end of the procssing.

 

With the Leica Q only very little adaptions are necessary if you got the exposure well. Everything beyond that is just a matter of personal taste. The IQ is there and you can work on your look where necessary.

[Maarten]

My experience with my Leica M8 and Leica M (typ240) is that the standaard sharpening settings in the Capture 1 profile do not need any further tweaking. The same is true for the noise settings. I never touch them and have never felt the need to touch them.

I assume that for the Leica Q the standard settings will be optimised by Capture 1 as well.

[Michafoto]

Thank you very much for your replies! I find the default settings are okay, but get better results if I create my own ones.

I've done so for NR and sharpening for my Nikon 810's and the results are much better from what C1 offers me as default. 

[Lucena]

Sharpening, always sharpening... not always useful, I think in many pictures sharpening takes away softness, look at analogic times, pics have an inimitable magic... More and more often I low contrast to give pictures a certain mood, like this one:

 

 

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Now of course it depends on what you want to render and feel.

[Voxen]

Q images are razor sharp out of the box, sharpening them will only create ugly halos.

[biglouis]

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I also vote for no extra sharpening. I am amazed at how sharp and detailed RAW files are at the pixel level (I used Lightroom). Before the Q the only camera in my possession that could deliver this kind of sharpness at 100% was my Foveon-based Sigma DP2M and DP3M. I never thought Bayer-type sensors could be this sharp but on the Q the output is, imho.

 

LouisB

[otto.f]

I don't know about the Q, but you asked specifically about sharpness settings. Well, it's interesting that the C1 default for M9 is 130 and for the MM1 180. Which is strange because the MM1 wouldn't need more but rather less since it lacks the bayer filter which makes it sharper already. In practice, I indeed found the 180 too sharp in many situations, so C1's philosophy on default sharpness settings is debatable I'd say.