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Forehead
May-19-2006, 10:07 AM
My current research suggests that the oftentimes "soft" images shot with my Nikon E5400 isn't all that uncommon. I also found that there are DxO software modules for various camera-lens combos (mainly DSLRs but a few fixed-lens ones such as the Sony DSC R1, Nikon E8800 but not yet mine) but, until (unless?) DxO comes out with a module for my camera, what else can I use to correcct for lens softness? :dunno
wxwax
May-19-2006, 11:39 AM
All you need is a basic sharpening tool in any photo editing software.
Forehead
May-21-2006, 10:33 AM
That DOES seem to work, mostly.

All you need is a basic sharpening tool in any photo editing software.
wxwax
May-21-2006, 12:38 PM
That DOES seem to work, mostly.
If basic sharpening doesn't work, and you have Photoshop, try this technique (http://www.sportsshooter.com/message_display.html?tid=8115). It's much more aggressive, and will bring out the noise in high ISO shots, but the results are sometimes miraculous.
colourbox
May-21-2006, 01:01 PM
If basic sharpening (Unsharp Mask) doesn't work, and you're in Photoshop CS2, next try Smart Sharpen with the Lens Blur option. It's a more lens-oriented way of sharpening than Unsharp Mask.

If you do the High Pass method, you can suppress noise by applying the sharpening through an edge mask (http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/12189.html) so that the sharpening doesn't apply to flat areas.
wxwax
May-21-2006, 01:05 PM
If basic sharpening (Unsharp Mask) doesn't work, and you're in Photoshop CS2, next try Smart Sharpen with the Lens Blur option. It's a more lens-oriented way of sharpening than Unsharp Mask.

If you do the High Pass method, you can suppress noise by applying the sharpening through an edge mask (http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/12189.html) so that the sharpening doesn't apply to flat areas.
Good tip!