I have now reinstalled my computer equipment back into the office I
share with my wife - we had to move out due of there to the house
needing a total rewire and while they did that I got cat6 ethernet cable
put in every room. anyway now I can print images again.
I have been less than pleased with my results from the 5D2, its not that
they are bad just not better than the E-3 which according to the web it
should be clearly capable of delivering better images than I can coax
out of it. So going back to basics please correct me if my reasoning or
thoughts are wrong
I shoot raw so the only variables I need to consider when taking the
photo are aperture, shutter, iso and focus - I just need to watch the
metering and focus and forget about all other functions.
Once the raw file is copied to the computer the raw processing play a
part so assuming the original file is good I should be able to produce a
good print. Now with Aperture3 ( I will stay with this because the raw
processing is good enough and the benefits of the catalog outweigh any
minuses) and calibrated screens I see colours in the print that pretty
much match the image on one screen, however the images just don't look
as good printed and when I study the print very closely I see lots of
what appears grain.
When I say one screen, I have a dual display setup with a 24" for main
display and a 20" 1600x1200 rotated for showing the image. On teh 24"
dell the image is quite soft and unfortunately if I up teh sharpness
settinbg on it it makes the text look horrible, a great screen for
multimedia but not so good for photo's. The 20" displays the image nice
and sharp.
Last night I played with the nik sharpener pro 3.0 (demo ) plugin for
aperture and it allows the sharpening to be done just before print (as
you all advise) you tell it where to output it e.g display or print then
if print what type of paper and then you have some sliders to play with
to vary strength etc. The thing that puzzles me is that sharpening
should be done at the output size and as I am working on the raw file I
don't see where to tell the nik software I will print at A4 although I
do tell it the resolution of the print eg 2880x1440. Is anyone else
using this software
Do I need to downsize before I sharpen, I found a nice review here
<http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/reviews/plugins/sharpening_nik3.html#box_sharpening>
but I am still at a loss. The reason I am posting is the hope that
someone has some tips to save me wasting paper on test prints..
This is sort of ON topic as I want to get the best from my OM glass and E-3
Thanks IanW
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