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Wildlife with a Sigma SD1 Merrill and 100-400mm OS lens

Started Aug 24, 2021 | Discussions thread
Scottelly
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Re: Wildlife with a Sigma SD1 Merrill and 100-400mm OS lens

xpatUSA wrote:

Scottelly wrote:

xpatUSA wrote:

xpatUSA wrote:

Scottelly wrote:

Out of curiosity, does the last photo in this post look sharp to you Ted, or do you think it needs to be sharpened?

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/65419295

I'll take a look and ... I'll be baaack ...

Here's what my new toy (Edge Detection) tells me, young man:

View original size+ to see the edges

Quite a narrow depth of field in the shot so not much in focus. Our good ole' Merrill has resolved in-focus edges very well. I myself might have tried for more micro-contrast in post - but how much is desirable would be your call, not mine.

Unfortunately I can't see thg that image Ted . . . at least not on my phone, using the Samsung browser, which could be the problem, I guess. Is it a .png? It shows up all black for me.

No problem, Young Man.

I took a crop from the middle and repeated the exercise:

Again view original size+

It is a JPEG and shows that Merrill "detail" capture very well, IMHO.

I didn't sharpen the OOC jpeg Ted. I guess I should be converting raw files, and sharpening them more in SPP than the way they are looking right out of the camera.

I disagree - your OOC JPEGs look very good to me.

The big of advantage of converting from raw in SPP is the fixing of mistakes (e.g. wrong WB, highlight recovery, etc.), not the different sharpness in the conversion - which you normally crank down anyhoo!

Ah, thanks for the info. Ted. Normally that is what I use SPP for, but most of the time I get the white balance pretty close, so I can adjust the OOC jpeg slightly, and I'm happy with it. I'd be more picky, if I were planning to make a really big, expensive print from my processed image though, no doubt.

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