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NX300 early impressions

Started Jan 23, 2014 | Discussions thread
pixelpushing
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Re: NX300 early impressions

tjobbe wrote:

arbuz wrote:

pixelpushing wrote:

CONS: I'm starting to think the NX300 gives up a smidge of sharpness to the previous gen model(s).

I like your review. Regarding above - I must say I have sometimes similar impression. I shot both NX30 and NX300 and occasionally I think low ISO is better on NX20. I have never done any test though so I cannot confirm. certainly noise reduction on high ISO has different patter on these both cameras.

the measurements of the NX200 indicates that they oversharpend the JPEG way more than in the NX20 and NX300 hence he impression is backed up by facts.

Nevertheless oversharpening is artificial and if you really liked the look of the NX200 you need to shoot raw and push the slider in LR

I personally develop my RAW's in LR as well with some oversharping but mainly for edges only

Where did you see measurements that implicated the sharpening of the prior models' JPEG engine? I'd be interested to check that out.

Agreed that oversharpening is typically lossy in nature and often abused. Sometimes, to increase perceived sharpness in an image, I apply heavy sharpening (avoiding the granular artifacts as much as possible) and then resample at lower MP using a method that accentuates edges.

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