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All at sixes fives and sevens - part 3 of 1 2 3 4 5

by Jon Ashton Published 01/12/2012

We conducted a sharpening test ring around to determine the optimum parameters. We found that the 5D needed less sharpening than the full-chip Nikon D700 and a lot less than the massively pixelled Nikon D800. This can be interpreted in two ways but what we are saying is that smaller values have to be employed before sharpening becomes obtrusive, so the 5D needs a lighter touch than a D700 or D800. The opening spread used 40 Amount, 0.5 Radius, 80 Detail followed by use of 50% opacity in the High Pass layer (Pixel Genius parameters).

To smooth out the noise we also applied a Masking setting of 80 for the actual image (which was shot at 800 ISO, 1/800s f5.6, EF500mm f/4L IS USM).

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