Thanks, Moose, for your excellent explanation.
Use what ever buzz-words you like; but you were on the same page; at the
same wave-length, singing from the same hymn sheet, as me.
What I was trying to get across but apparently failed to do, is that Yes, I
understand that digital images need sharpening, and sometimes other
enhancements as well, depending on the desired outcome. BUT there has
to be a start-point, and for me I prefer to start with an as near to unaltered
image out of the camera, doing all post-processing later. That way, if post-
processing goes awry, you can go back to the neutral beginning.
It looks as though I have made a less-than-optimal choice for camera;
however, for the foreseeable future that is the bed I must lie in.
The http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/olympuse3/page32.asp was very
telling. As far as I know I had not seen it before now.
Interesting that they came to the same conclusion as me; no advantage in
using RAW if the only goal you have is to make an image seem sharper.
In the page Olympus E-3 Pixel Level Resolution, what do the numbers in the
boxes represent?
Did you make any changes to saturation / hue?
I'm pretty happy with the demonstration; when you realise that the diameter
of many of those smaller twigs situated some 400 yards - metres distant is
approximately 0.5 - 1 cm; 1/4 - 1/3 inch, the best sharpness showed them
individually pretty well.
I have saved the images and file code for future study :-) Thanks.
It's well after midnight as I write this ( I have the world to myself at this
hour -
I love it), but I'm going to research anti-aliasing filters some other time.
Probably can't do anything about it anyway.
Chuck, thanks for your interest, but on this occasion, Moose was right on
the button. (I hate buzz-words - and have used 4 in this posting!)
The series of images I came up with were a complete surprise. Didn't expect
the subject to be like that, on that day.
As the saying goes "you had to be there". "f/8 and don't be late."
Brian Swale.
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