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how to get sharper digital pics with my Canon 10d I am an artistic photographer who has shot film and have been shooting for a couple months with my canon 10D. I love the concept of digital but have not been able to get the crisp pics that film has given me. I have checked all of my traditional bases and still I am not happy with the results. I do not know if it is when I shoot in the camera or if it is when I put the image into the computer, but somewhere from start to finish my pics come out slightly soft. Any help would be strongly appreciated. Many thanks David
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Dave Cross |
Hi David. The images from all Canon DSLRs are a tad on the soft side straight from the camera (apparently by design), you can either wind up the sharpening algorithm in the camera or (better) apply a little unsharp mask in Photoshop. Fred Miranda (www.fredmiranda.com) has some good effective low-cost actions and plug-ins for photoshop to do just that. Cheers
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
all canon's have soft images?
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Dave Cross |
Hi Gregory. I've seen quite a lot of discussions about Canon DSLR's slightly soft images, have a look on fredmiranda.com. Apparently the in-camera sharpening is kept low to allow the photographer to 'do his thing', the PnS Canon's have more in-camera sharpening. Of course this may all be a load of bull, but I certainly notice that my D60 produces slightly softer looking images straight from the camera than my A80. Cheers
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Oh well, I haven't really noticed anything. At least not in an inherent softness. If anything has looked soft it's because I just didn't was a few inches off on the focus on anything I've shot.
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Kim Acheson |
Canon did have a problim with this on the 10D. I know that they did try to fix it in one of the updeated modles. From what I understand you can send in your Canon and they will fix the problim but I dont know exactly who you need to talk to for the fix. I have been looking intot he 10D for a while and found out that way. By the way have you done any 16x20 or bigger? Im wondering how they turn out. Kim
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doug Nelson |
IF you are using Canon's (or Tamron or Tokina) high grade lenses, and IF you are using a tripod when appropriate, read up on Sharpening in Photoshop, using Unsharp Mask (strange term). See Luminous-landscape.com tutorials for a good one on Unsharp Mask. Look also for a technique on changing the image to Lab Color, breaking it out into channels, and sharpening the Brightness chanel, then reconvert to RGB.
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