Sharpening in DXO Photolab vs Ligthroom
Sharpening in DXO Photolab vs Ligthroom
1 month ago
I am trying to wean myself from Lightroom and I find DXO Photolab a great choice for that. However in certain situations I find a puzzling difference between the two. In normal circumstances when a lens is supported by the software DXO PL has a Lens Sharpness tool that does a pretty good job and stands up to LR very well. However I recently bought Laowa 7.5mm f/2 (auto aperture) which is not supported by DXO PL. That means I cannot rely on the Lens Sharpness tool and the only fallback I have is Unsharp Mask. My problem: no matter what combination of USM parameters I use I never get a resulting image as sharp as LR's default output. In LR I just import the RAW and export it with no corrections and it comes out much better looking than any correction I apply in DXO PL in this case. Attached is a 100% comparison. On the left side is LR, on the right side is the image form DXO PL.
Have you encountered something similar - lack of sharpness in DXO PL? How do you handle sharpness for unsupported lenses? Is there any equivalency between LR's sharpness settings and DXO PL's Unsharp Mask settings?

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