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EOS RP picture style settings - what picture style do you use ?

Started May 13, 2019 | Discussions thread
Sandro80 New Member • Posts: 13
Re: EOS RP picture style settings - what picture style do you use ?

I have played further with the sharpening settings, and i would like to share my findings :

the default values of 4,2,4 are ok, only a bit on the soft side when your subject is plenty of textures.

I found that the finesse of 2 is an happy medium for any situation : going to 1 made the sharpening quite subtle and should be used imho only on high megapixel sensors, while numbers above 2 gives a "rough" artificial effect, thus i would avoid them.

Threshold is a tricky one: it is useful to sharpen very small textures on flat surfaces (for example on a leaf), but the results are often very subtle, if visible at all. 1 threshold amount shall be paired with finesse at 1, otherwise oversharpening artifacts will immediately arise in your picture (the facts is that thickness of sharpnened edges will be bigger than the space between the edges themself) Standard amount of 4 is very similar to 5,with just a tiny bit more details but never intrusive in skin tones, sky, or other situations where too much details are not welcome (so no big reasons to choose 5) while 3 is in my opinion the worst choiche: noise and visible artifacts with negligible improvements on fine details enhancement. Amounts lower than 4 tend to sharpen the noise of your images, expecially in shadow areas, and while i found usually not disturbing the kind of noise produced by the RP (in facts i always keep my noise reduction OFF) , the sharpened noise is very digital and unpleasing to my eyes

Finally the amount : 4 enhance the sharpened edges but with just a bit of softness (which should be ok for many people) , 5 is almost perfect (sharp but not overdone) , while 6 is a bit over the top, but still fine if you want very scenic images, and is also perfect for detailed printings (in my experience, print will take away part of the noise and part of the sharpening from yr images)

So, after having tried hundreds of possible combinations of the 3 parameters of sharpening, my preferred choices are:

5 or 6 amount

2 finesse

4 threshold

If shooting only at low iso, i would consider also threshold at 2... but only few real world situations will get real sharpness benefits from low threshold numbers.

These are my findings. I will be pleased to know if any of you went through same toughts

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