ACR sharpening required in 4.1???


in other thread, jeff schewe made following statement:

"...and discovered comparing 4.0 , 4.1 no sharpening kinda useless because sharpening designed used new smoothing in demosaicing, ya know? i'm seeing better edge detail , less super high frequncy noise 4.1..."

is necessary use acr sharpening best out of 4.1 demosaicing? why go (great??) ps capture sharpening practices such pks, focal blade, or glenn mitchell's new scripts not or better job?

if acr sharpening required, these default? if not, , acr sharpening needed, why detailed sharpening discussions not provided?

based on thomas knoll's statement 4.1 provided smoother (less noisy) images (it relative jpeg size), reran noise ninja calibration profiles 5d. not surprising, found on average, acr sharpened (default 25/1.0/25/0) images 3 5 points more noisy unsharpened. if need use nn, means need turn acr sharpening off, before using it....but mean not have best image acr.

i appreciate better understanding of best.

thanks...john

>based on thomas knoll's statement 4.1 provided smoother (less noisy) images (it relative jpeg size), reran noise ninja calibration profiles 5d. not surprising, found on average, acr sharpened (default 25/1.0/25/0) images 3 5 points more noisy unsharpened. if need use nn, means need turn acr sharpening off, before using it....but mean not have best image acr.

sharpening should done after noise reduction, or else sharpening noise. 5d has noise characteristics, , nr needed high iso or severely underexposed images. if want use acr's sharpening on noisy images, should try nr in acr. use of new masking feature in acr may limiting sharpening edges in image , protecting surface areas (e.g. clear blue sky) sharpening.

if noise still high, might want use noise ninja or specialized nr program. in case should turn off sharpening in acr. acr's nr reportedly improved, doubt can job noise ninja. furthermore, in photoshop can nr through surface mask (the inverse of edge mask) protect edges. choose best tools job.


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