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Do many of you actually use/change it? I have been experimenting with the in camera sharpening on my 550D this morning and I can't notice much difference, if any.
In camera sharpening.
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It only makes a difference to the JPEG. (My guess is you're shooting Raw which is why there's no 'difference')
Despite the general net mantra to always shoot Raw, if you know what you're doing you can spend time setting up your camera to produce print ready JPEGs. But just like all 'auto' modes, the cameras built in styles probably won't be to your taste.
Despite the general net mantra to always shoot Raw, if you know what you're doing you can spend time setting up your camera to produce print ready JPEGs. But just like all 'auto' modes, the cameras built in styles probably won't be to your taste.
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That would explain it, thanks. I always shoot in Raw. Setting up the camera to produce ready print JPEG's wouldn't save me any extra time. I don't do my own printing and when I do send images away to get printed I like to make sure everything is ok on the PC first
I have a bad habit of pixel peeping lol.
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I don't know, I'll give it a try. I wouldn't have thought it would make much difference though unless you reduce all the other settings as well. Mind you I've never really had a problem with processing speeds unless I do RAW + Jpeg at the same time, it slows down after about 10shots in a burst.
I saw that in a tutorial I was watching about video. They didn't explain why and how it would affect it though. Must give it a try.
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In camera sharpening will apply the same amount of sharpening to every shot unless you adjust it between shots. But how do you know how much the finished image will need? Usually it's best to apply the sharpening you need rather than the same to everything. For instance, a portrait could be softened, rather than sharpened, a car shot sharpened quite hard, a landscape sharpened in some areas but not others. Best to do this in post, on a decent sized screen where you can see what you're doing. Doing it in-camera is guesswork.
Assuming the goal is "ready to use" photos straight from camera you would run into problems with sharpness. Digital cameras have an innate and unavoidable problem with sharpness due to the employment of interpolation and anti-aliasing to counteract problems that occur when transitions are found at a sub-pixel level. The result is that hard edges in digital photography are necessarily rendered somewhat indistinct regardless of lens quality or technique (film avoids this because detail is rendered at an incredibly small - indeed, molecular - level).
So you would likely quickly encounter situations where sharpening in PP was necessary.
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Always have mine switched off so that even if I am shooting jpeg I can use my standard sharpening procedures post processing
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It can make a difference when shooting RAW if you use the camera manufactuer's own software for RAW processing - certainly with Nikon Capture NX-D, Capture NX 2 & ViewNX 2 the in camera sharpening is applied to the raw file. The in camera settings are only "ignored" if you use a third party product like Adobe Lightroom for RAW processing.