Pany GH5 Photo Style questions

DMKAlex wrote:

John Best wrote:

DMKAlex wrote:

Off The Mark wrote:

DMKAlex wrote:

2. If I lower the sharpness of the "Natural" photo style, I would have to create a custom setting, mimicking "Natural" before the change in sharpness, right? I don't normally process sharpening in my video edit.

Can you clarify what you mean here?

Do you mean that you want to use Natural profile for BOTH jpgs and video, but that you want different sharpness levels for jpgs and video?

I am now using "Natural" for both jpg and video. I found the camera, even set at 0 sharpness, still does some form of sharpening.

I have decided to leave it as it is and modify my still photo editing workflow to omit further sharpening the image.

I have also now set to camera to take both RAW and jpg simultaneously to have an untouched image if needed.

This is a very popular camera for video and many of us have used it with sharpening set to 0. I've never seen anyone say it is still sharpening, and there are many examples where video look natural with no sharpening.

So I don't know what is going on. Could it be your software?

I don't use, or have the need to use sharpening in video. The problem is that when I applied sharpening to the still, they came out over-sharpened.

Stevewmn may hit on the source of my problem: anti-aliasing filter. I would like to hear more about this subject.

Aliasing is a basic concept that you should research and understand.  The anti-aliasing filter does what its name implies, it attempts to reduce or eliminate the aliasing defect seen with digital images.  Removal of this filter may improve one’s perception of ‘sharpness’, but its removal does not add sharpness, it merely allows the images inherent sharpness to shine through.  If the images out of your camera appear too sharp, or over-sharpened it is probably due to in-camera processing of some kind, such as added sharpness or sharpness added in a camera profile.  Or, alternatively, your editing platform (software)may be adding sharpness that you are not aware of.

As for adding sharpness to video, the output from many high-end cine cameras can be somewhat soft and can benefit from some degree of sharpening in post, but that is a decision usually made by the editor.  To wit, I shoot with a Canon C300 MKIII whose 4k output can be—to my eyes—soft, and I typically add some degree of sharpening in Resolve.