Does using Liveview alter picture styles?

[Mad Badger]

Been struggling to get crisp focus with my 450D & Sigma 150-500 lens.

So I tried using liveview & 10x magnification, with a remote shutter release off Amazon.

Well I'm sure the focus is crisper, but also the colours look warmer & more natural, and when I view the raw files in DPP there's no sharpening applied AT ALL, not even the usual +3 that the Canon standard picture style seems to apply in camera.............am I making any sense & has anyone else noticed this?

Also the red box for the selected focus point isn't red, it's black like all the other unselected points & it's not where I zoomed in with liveview.

:shrug:

Is this normal behaviour or am I going bonkers!?!

 

[swanseamale47]

Raw files don't have any sharpening applied to them, nor do the picture styles affect the raw image, it's possible DPP is showing a camera picture style detected from the inbuilt data and is applying that look to the raw (I don't use DPP) I suspect the focus point is blacked out because some cameras don't autofocus in live view, I don't know if your is one of them, and I haven't got a 450 handy to try.

 

[tdodd]

If you are focusing manually then no focus point will be lit, because there was no active focus point, since AF was not used. I don't have a 450D, but assuming it works like the 40D, when you do AF the camera will only use the central fixed focus point for focusing. It does not matter whereabouts you aim the zoom square - that's where you might be looking, but that is not where the camera is focusing......, unless, the camera has Live AF, like the 50D, in which case, if you are using Live AF, then the usual focus points are not used so none will be lit. If you use Live AF then the camera will be focusing wherever in the scene you positioned the focusing square.

As for picture styles and DPP whilst using Live View, there is no reason that I can think of why the camera and DPP between them should ignore the selected picture style and parameters. I suggest you double check the camera settings and then press CTRL-I whilst in DPP to look at the information from the image file to see how the settings compare.

 

[Mad Badger]

Thanks both of you for your input

I was using Live AF & now understand why the focus points were dark

Thanks for putting me straight about the picture style being applied to RAW files too! It looks like Canon applies +3 if you select standard & zero sharpening if you go for faithful......I live & learn :bonk:

 

[tdodd]

Since you are shooting raw you are free to change picture styles and settings for sharpening, WB etc once you have the image(s) in DPP, so no harm done at all You can bump the sharpening up to 3, or anything else you like, with no detriment to IQ.

 

[Mad Badger]

Thatnks tdodd, I have discovered that I can fool about with raw files as much as I like & not "lose" anything, thank God!

Now off to try to work out how much tweaking to do in DPP before processing to jpeg & opening up Elements 7.

a whole new can of worms.............