FZ200 NR and sharpening - my theory and experiments to date-Part 1

By the way...even though my NR and sharpness were set to -2 the HDR image used 0 for both. I checked the file. I took two HDR images. One at ISO 200 and another at ISO 400. Camera auto selected. The ISO 200 HDR image was beautiful! Clean and naturally sharp not over edge enhanced. The ISO 400 image was awful! Smudged and a lot of noise. Both were static images no movement. Very strange results. I also tried an ISO 1600 shot once and it looked pretty good. Sharp...had some noise but very usable image. Maybe HDR is best on static images for high ISO's and low ISO's for that matter. Sometimes it gets tripped up by something though. Very strange why the one ISO 400 image looked so bad. There was some clipping in the image so maybe that's what caused it to screw up.