Basic Photoshop settings for RAW JPEG conversion.. EX2F?

Greynerd wrote:

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.

With an ND filter?  I haven't heard about this before, I'm a bit curious now.

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.

You're quite right though, they are designed for this.  It's a bit difficult to dig up actual data though on compacts, DXO has some, my internet is pretty slow right now so I didn't check many yet.  I found that the Canon G16 lens is sharpest wide open, also has the most CA at that point though.  It's a 12 MP camera, but even at it's best with the lens the effective MP is 5 at the highest and drops down quite quickly to 1-2 MP.  DXO didn't have data on the EX2F lens, being a Schneider Kreuznach, I hope that it's better.

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.