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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Other Raw Converters => Apple Aperture Q&A => Topic started by: phoTOMgraphy on August 02, 2009, 04:30:18 pm

Title: raw finetuning presets
Post by: phoTOMgraphy on August 02, 2009, 04:30:18 pm
hi,
does anybody have a good preset (sharpening ...) for the raw finetuning section for those cameras: olympus e-3 and hasselblad h3d-39?

i would appreciate some advise.

cheers
tom
Title: raw finetuning presets
Post by: David Mantripp on August 17, 2009, 04:43:22 am
Quote from: phoTOMgraphy
hi,
does anybody have a good preset (sharpening ...) for the raw finetuning section for those cameras: olympus e-3 and hasselblad h3d-39?

i would appreciate some advise.

cheers
tom

As far as the E-3 is concerned, I find the defaults just fine. However, in some cases, such as very high contrast, winding down the Boost a bit is helpful to recover highlights.

Why do you ask ? What are you not happy with ?
Title: raw finetuning presets
Post by: phoTOMgraphy on August 23, 2009, 09:27:45 am
Quote from: drm
As far as the E-3 is concerned, I find the defaults just fine. However, in some cases, such as very high contrast, winding down the Boost a bit is helpful to recover highlights.

Why do you ask ? What are you not happy with ?

i'm asking because i'm not shure if the defaults are the best.
every camera has its own desire of capture sharpening to reduce the AA filter softness.
so maybe there is a tested adjustment for sharpening which is ideal.

tom
Title: raw finetuning presets
Post by: David Mantripp on October 02, 2009, 06:58:44 pm
Quote from: phoTOMgraphy
i'm asking because i'm not shure if the defaults are the best.
every camera has its own desire of capture sharpening to reduce the AA filter softness.
so maybe there is a tested adjustment for sharpening which is ideal.

tom


Well, all I can suggest is try changing stuff to see if it improves!  From my point of view, the E-3 default settings provided by Aperture work fine. As I said before, reducing the Boost can sometimes help with very high contrast images.  And using a different camera in those situations will help even more....

Just as an illustration, Aperture does not provide a default for the Ricoh GRD DNG RAW files - and they look pretty awful, until you sort out the RAW fine tuning.  So this does tend to illustrate that for know cameras, Apple have actually done some useful work.