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330 HS will do I think :)

Started May 18, 2014 | Discussions thread
brianj Forum Pro • Posts: 14,657
Re: Looks Great Wayne

Wayne N. wrote:

Good stuff Brian! I'll check out your adjustment more when I'm not on my tablet. Fyi, those were both processed minimally in LR4, with the sharpness set to 25 for both. I used the auto tone preset on the raw image, which explains the contrast difference. My feeling is that some more detail could maybe be eaked out of the in camera jpg via sharpening, but only so much because the detail is simply not there to the level of the raw image since the in camera noise reduction did it's thing. Whereas with the raw image, the detail is just there and ready to be enhanced/sharpened further if desired. I think though that I'll try to do what you did - enhance each image as much as I can, and see if I end up with the same excitement about the raw possibilities

I agree with your thoughts, also I think I went a bit too high with the contrast.

The only way the jpg could reach the raw standard of detail is by reducing the in camera NR which isn't made available to the end user, but I have found some surprising things happen when you move the sharpening up or down a notch, and have a suspicion it is linked to some small degree to the NR.  To verify this, try taking a low light shot at say ISO1600 at various sharpening settings.  It is my thought that canon may have minimal NR applied at ISO80 and ramp it up at higher ISO and link it slightly to the sharpening.  Its a complex system they have developed for noise control these days, but its still not able to match manually doing it from raw by an expert.

All of my theories on this have come from experimentation as there is next to nothing made available by the manufacturers.

Brian

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