[Leica] IMG: Sharpening

[h_arche at yahoo.com (H. Ball Arche)]

Hey Jeffery- 

What's less?

When I shot PanF I'd go as high as 1.5 @150%.

Now shooting APX 100, a high adjustment for me would
be 0.9@125%.

With Tri-x I feel I'm pushing it to go 0.7@75%.

With Neopan 1600 I sometimes don't tweak it at all
because of what it does to the grain, at least, not
until I resize and jpeg it for the web. 

At that point everything gets another 0.3@50%, almost
always.

--- Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:

> I am using sharpening less and less (I don't mean is
> often don't use it, but
> I use it with very "weak" settings. It tends to
> sharpen my grain(!) when I
> don't want it to, and it wreaks havok with faces
> older than Britney Spears'.
> If anyone viewing the finished says "It looks
> oversharpened", its time to
> start backing off.
> 
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
>
[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org]
> On Behalf Of Jesse
> Hellman
> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 5:33 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Sharpening
> 
> 
> Hi, as a total newbie to digital I scanned a lot of
> my prints and put  
> them up as galleries without sharpening them. I just
> thought that the  
> softness you saw was a necessary part of scanning.
> Mark Rabiner  
> enlightened me (thanks as usual, Mark). Sharpening
> makes a big  
> difference on most of the pictures. They were
> photographed with a  
> Leica, not a Holga.
> 
> So, I just sharpened (unsharp masked) all the
> pictures on my  
> Transformations (Backstage at the Peabody Opera)
> gallery <http:// 
> gallery.leica-users.org/v/Jesse+Hellman/> as well as
> the Mikado  
> pictures in the Opera section. I'll try to get to
> the Spoleto  
> pictures soon.
> 
> And I understand you sharpen pictures when you print
> them, too.
> 
> Any feedback will be helpful.
> 
> Jesse
> 
> 
> 
> 
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