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Correcting for lens softness

ForeheadForehead Registered Users Posts: 679 Major grins
edited May 21, 2006 in Digital Darkroom
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
Steve-o

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    wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited May 19, 2006
    All you need is a basic sharpening tool in any photo editing software.
    Sid.
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    ForeheadForehead Registered Users Posts: 679 Major grins
    edited May 21, 2006
    That DOES seem to work, mostly.
    wxwax wrote:
    All you need is a basic sharpening tool in any photo editing software.
    Steve-o
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    wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited May 21, 2006
    Forehead wrote:
    That DOES seem to work, mostly.
    If basic sharpening doesn't work, and you have Photoshop, try this technique. It's much more aggressive, and will bring out the noise in high ISO shots, but the results are sometimes miraculous.
    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
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    colourboxcolourbox Registered Users Posts: 2,095 Major grins
    edited May 21, 2006
    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 so that the sharpening doesn't apply to flat areas.
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    wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited May 21, 2006
    colourbox wrote:
    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 so that the sharpening doesn't apply to flat areas.
    Good tip!
    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
    http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
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