In camera sharpening?

OK, I've googled and googled. How does one change sharpening levels within the NEX-5? Is that possible? I haven't had the camera long...and I know that some options/settings are context-sensitive...but I haven't been able to find any information about it, either by searching through the in-camera menus OR online.

I personally find that I need to sharpen pics from the NEX in PS afterwards. I'd love to be able to access any in-camera controls there to see if i can find settings I prefer.

BTW...I have only used jpeg fine settings for images. Do I need to shoot raw files as well to access these controls?

Help, and thanks.

It is in the manual; however, in the menu item "Brightness & Color" scroll down and select Standard and then the lower button is optiions. Press it and you can adjust contrast, saturation and sharpness. (Only applies to JPGs)
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The Creative Style options are not available in iAuto or any of the Scene modes so make sure you are shooting in P,A,S,M, Panorama or Anti-Motion Blur modes (P if you want something automatic) with more camera control... like choosing and customizing a Creative Style.

D'oh!

I keep forgetting about the "Options" button in some modes.

Thanks for your help all.

rsh2004 said:

D'oh!

I keep forgetting about the "Options" button in some modes.

Thanks for your help all.

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I suggest that you use Sharpness+2 or +3
It will not carry to RAW files so you can always adjust that if you want.

I have never seen someone complain "this picture is too sharp booo" but i have seen a lot of people complain that the picture is "so soft"

I'm quite happy with sharpness +1 for most purposes.

It is naive to say there cannot be too much sharpening, or that no one notices. I have complained, and rightly so, that pictures are too sharp - with halos and other artifacts clearly visible. The Panasonic P&S cameras and camcorders have too much sharpening, for example. I have also seen examples of overuse of sharpening in pp, resulting in artifical-looking pictures. It is recomened for video use of the Panasonic GH1, for example, that in-camera sharpening be reduced (-1), the halo artifacts being so bad.

Markr041 said:

It is naive to say there cannot be too much sharpening, or that no one notices. I have complained, and rightly so, that pictures are too sharp - with halos and other artifacts clearly visible. The Panasonic P&S cameras and camcorders have too much sharpening, for example. I have also seen examples of overuse of sharpening in pp, resulting in artifical-looking pictures. It is recomened for video use of the Panasonic GH1, for example, that in-camera sharpening be reduced (-1), the halo artifacts being so bad.

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I'm talking about NEX only, for EPL1 for example the pictures are really sharp that you might even need to reduce it, but for NEX it seems even Sharpness+3 is acceptable, too many people complain about NEX output being soft and that's why i suggested to RAW+JPEG, keep the jpeg at Sharpness+2 or +3 depends on what are you shooting and the sharpness+ wont carry to raw so you can adjust the picture later.

OK, I just wanted to make sure people would not generalize this, although it still is not obvious that +2 is not too much even for NEX.