[Leica] IMG: Sharpening

[jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)]

For the past few years, I only used the Edge Sharpen feature of Photokit. It
seemed to tighten up only the obvious edges of larger objects without
turning the blades of grass into shards of glass.

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 H. Ball
Arche
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 7:24 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: RE: [Leica] IMG: Sharpening


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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