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Basic Photoshop settings for RAW JPEG conversion.. EX2F?

Started Sep 24, 2014 | Questions thread
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Re: Basic Photoshop settings for RAW JPEG conversion.. EX2F?

I am not sure if that is so true for compacts as the actual aperture is pretty small anyway. The consensus of opinion I have read is that many are at their best wide open and diffraction sets in early. The lens is probably designed for this and a lot of compacts do not even a have aperture blades and fake a wide/narrow aperture with an ND filter.

The f1.4 on the EX2f has about the same aperture as f4 on a 16mm aps-c lens so probably stopping it down is OK but I think you would need to be careful about assuming it would help for a slower lens compact. Edit: My Panasonic TZ60 wide open has the same aperture as f11 on an an aps-c so you are heading into diffraction territory closing up the aperture.

ttbek wrote:

I don't know about the "most pressing," but IQ must indeed suffer to a certain degree. You will find that almost all lenses have their performance increase significantly when stopped down a few stops.

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