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Subject: [Leica] Intro & question: part 2
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 06:44:04 +0530
References: <20090601201108.GB3718@olypen.com> <p06230910c64a29b24c24@10.0.1.199>

Increasing sharpness in the menu does translate into sharper
photographs on the LCD screen, though if you are shooting RAW you can
always reverse it in the conversion software. I always shoot RAW, and
I always leave a modicum of sharpening on in the camera. The LCD
screens on the current crop of SLR offerings are big and bright, and
pretty good.
Cheers
Jayanand
p.s. I have behaved myself and not mentioned any particular brand (-: !!!

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Henning Wulff <henningw at archiphoto.com> 
wrote:
> For a number of years now my SLR needs have been met by Canons. At present 
> I
> use among others a 40D. What annoys me most about it is that the screen at
> the back really doesn't help me much with how sharp the photo is that I 
> just
> took or am taking. It always displays quite mushy. Yet when I take a
> technically decent shot, bring it into the computer and look at it, it's 
> OK.
> It's that damned screen image!
>
> I was very disappointed at first when I switched over from the 20D to the
> 40D, as the 20D with it's small screen actually gave a much more accurate
> impression of the shot, especially when magnified. The strange thing is 
> that
> the 5D, and now the 5D MkII, show quite sharp images on playback. It just
> seems to be the 40D. Whenever the 60D?? comes out I'll have a look and if
> the screen on playback shows the scene better, I'll get it immediately.
>
> BTW, increasing the sharpness in the menus doesn't do a thing when shooting
> RAW. I don't know and don't care about jpeg shots.
>
>
>
> At 1:11 PM -0700 6/1/09, William D. Tallman wrote:
>>
>> Thanks to all that responded to the original post.
>>
>> Live View on a Canon 40D avoids all mirrors and prisms, as what one sees
>> is what the sensor sees. ?Manual focus at maximum magnification is
>> probably somewhere close to what once would see on the monitor at full
>> size. ?I'm saying that because I've shot this particular scene a number
>> of times, as it has a varying gradient of detail, etc, etc.
>>
>> With regard the AA filter: ?After reading the site (Hot Rod filters...),
>> and recalling various clean room protocols that I don't have, doing that
>> procedure myself on a non-dedicated camera seemed foolish. ?And I don't
>> know that the AA filter is the cause of my complaint.
>>
>> Typically, that degree of sharpness requires larger format == less
>> magnification, and yes, the print is the performance for which applause
>> is given. ?I'm going to take delivery of an Epson 3800, which means that
>> large prints will be inevitable (does one regard a 16x20 print as large
>> now?); I want to know what I can expect. ?Mostly, I want to know what I
>> need to watch for (when we know better, we can do better...) in my
>> taking techniques.
>>
>> Thanks for reading.
>>
>> Bill Tallman
>>
>>
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