Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/03

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Subject: [Leica] Why sharpen?
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 21:37:47 -0700
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On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:22 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....) ?????

Except for the M8 all digital images I've worked with require
sharpening. Canon explicitly recognizes this and gives some base
settings in their literature for 1Ds MkII. I don't know about other
models. But the G9 and G10 also require it.

> 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.......

I think you actually need to play with a digital image to understand
what's going on, Frank. The result is very real and obvious even on
images you wouldn't suspect would react well.

Would an example help you?

Adam


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