Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/02

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Subject: [Leica] Why sharpen?
From: clive.moss at gmail.com (Clive Moss)
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 21:17:28 -0500
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1. To recover apparent sharpness after the blur of the anti-aliasing filter.

2. Same reason that one used a high-acutance developer with film. Same
optical illusion. Brighten the dark side of the edge. Lighten the light side
of the edge. Painters have done it forever.
--
Clive
Blog:  http://clive.moss.net/blog
Photographs: http://clive.smugmug.com


On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at 
earthlink.net>wrote:

> Sincerely asked.....
>
> Why sharpen a digital shot?  What do you gain over the basic " negative" (
> which could be RAW, Jpeg, TIFF or something else....) ?????
>
> I understand correcting some color qualities, and overall "blend" of
> colors,
> and exposure.....
>
> But the idea of taking an image that was captured digitally and putting it
> through a sharpening filter ( all the time) , somehow escapes me.......
>
>
Replies: Reply from drodgers at casefarms.com (David Rodgers) ([Leica] Why sharpen?)
Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Why sharpen?)
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