Hi,

I've had my D70 for several months now and I very happy with it (and more
importantly the images!). However, like most people, I'd always like to
improve things.

I've lately been musing on the topic of sharpening, and reading up on the
web. I main use the D70 in Landscape or Aperture Priority Mode. I mainly use
Capture 4 for post processing (both RAW and JPEGs), although have recently
bought Photoshop CS2, but I haven't really started to play with this yet.
Most of the time I shoot the highest quality JPEG's, but occassionally if a)
it seems like a particularly nice composition or b) tricky lighting
conditions, I shot in RAW.

My question relates to the in-camera sharpening. I have read that this
introduces more noise and I should set this to none, and apply unsharp mask
in Capture or Edge Sharp in PS (I think it was Edge Sharp, something like
that). I have done that under Custom Mode which, as I understand it, WILL
effect my AP (or manual or shutter priorty) shots but NOT the landscape mode
ones. Would I be correct in also thinking that this will only effect the
JPEGs and not the RAWs? Surely a RAW is raw and there is NO in camera
processing? If so I think I might turn it back on - I take hundreds of
pictures and only a handful (usually the RAW ones) are ones that I want to
do extensive post processing on. Would a good default configuration be to
have the sharpening switched on in the camera for the day to day shots, but
then use the Capture/PS facilities for sharpening my RAW images, which are
usually the 'special' ones?

I'm rambling aren't I ?!? Advice on users own default setting would be
helpful/useful/interesting !

TIA.