Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]-----Original Message----- From: Clive Moss [mailto:clive.moss at gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 10:17 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Why sharpen? 1. To recover apparent sharpness after the blur of the anti-aliasing filter. 2. Same reason that one used a high-acutance developer with film. Same optical illusion. Brighten the dark side of the edge. Lighten the light side of the edge. Painters have done it forever. -- Clive Blog: http://clive.moss.net/blog Photographs: http://clive.smugmug.com On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:22 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....) ????? > > 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....... > >