On 11/2/06, lea murphy <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I agree completely about having a sharpening starting point. This thread has me wondering, does it stand to reason that a specific lens, camera body combination would typically require about the same amount of sharpening? Kind of makes sense to me when I think about it. And that may be why my standard starting point works...because I typically use the same lens and body combo.
If you add in a particular photographer's typical working methods and subjects, the odds of having the same thing work about right a lot of the time go up even more I think.
Mind you, I'm not trying to pull an image into focus...just sharpen it up.
Right; very separate topics. I know I've spent *far* too much of my life, in the darkroom and in photoshop, trying to turn bad photos into mediocre photos -- but I'm mostly documenting things, and if it's the only photo I've got, I want it, darn it! So I *do* do trying to pull an image into focus now and then, but it's a very different process.
I've not yet shot a raw image that hasn't benefited from sharpening.
I think I've seen the theoreticians explaining why this will always be the case, though my optics is too weak to check their work. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
