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Subject: [Leica] a picture from Lesotho
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 01:52:06 -0500
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I agree with Philippe on this unsharping ones pix as in every one for sure 
and thinking of it as part of the process. Part of the workflow.
If one does not need to be adjusting any density light to dark or contrast 
or color balance in Lightroom or Photoshop one should still do the unsharp 
mask thing. And not on the occasional soft shot but every shot one 
"processes".
It's great to see images this size you can really see them.  I think they 
should with this great lens and camera be looking blazingly sharp and they 
are looking just a tad soft here. A little unsharp mask goes a long way. And 
better too little than too much of it.
I love the shot by the way.
The Q2 is really the perfect modern replacement for a IIIF shooter which was 
by the way the last Leica I'd been shooting with doing very little with my 
bulky M's In my last film Leica years. I have a 35, 50 and 90 for it.
- 

Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

?On 1/17/20, 4:06 PM, "LUG on behalf of Philippe via LUG" 
<lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at 
leica-users.org> wrote:

    Thanks Brian
    
    I read from another list that applying ? sharpness ? helps after you 
have exported (and downsized) the file as a jpeg. I tried the trick. And it 
works. Of course, lazy as I am, I don?t always use it. But I think you might 
want to know there?s much more ? sharpness ? in your shot than immediately 
perceived. In fact I resort to this when I really want a landscape to be 
ultra sharp (all things considered) and this might improve your already very 
fine picture.
     
    Amities
    
    Philippe, who will start today?s dreams with the lette Q :-)
    
    
    
    
    > Le 17 janv. 2020 ? 21:56, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> a 
?crit :
    > 
    > 
    >> Now, in terms of photography I have two questions
    >> - is your jpeg (the large one) straight from the camera?
    >> - if not, and why not an edited raw, did you apply much of the ?
    >> sharpness or clarity or d?haze" functions to it?
    > 
    > I imported the DNG into Lightroom and immediately exported it as a 
JPEG. No processing at all. I decided that Lightroom's JPEG conversion would 
probably be better than the camera's.
    > 
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