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Photo Forum / Digital Photography / ZLR Cameras / September 2005Canon PowerShot S2IS sharpness settings
The S2IS in-camera sharpening has a tendency to create jagged edges on narrow parrallell lines, as can be seen on test photos such as this one: http://www.cyberphoto.se/bildexempel/s2is/IMG_0219.JPG?PHPSESSID=2360bf8c39311f8 023cb046ce0f339d6 The sharpness can however be adjusted in the manual setting modes. There is a setting called "low sharpness". This makes away with almost all of the jaggedness, and is not a softening effect at all. Iinstead, in my opinion the "Low sharpness" setting should be called "Moderate Sharpening", and the standard sharpness stetting should to be called "Excessive Sharpening" as this is what it does. More sharpness than the "low sharpness" setting is much better applied, using PhotoShop. The Panasonic FZ5 has also produced jagged lines in the same test as above, and could probably be adjusted in a similar manner too. Most SLR's have very moderate in-camera sharpening, and it is a pity that zlr's should suffer from bad compromizes such as this. > The S2IS in-camera sharpening has a tendency to create jagged edges on > narrow parrallell lines, as can be seen on test photos such as this [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Most SLR's have very moderate in-camera sharpening, and it is a pity > that zlr's should suffer from bad compromizes such as this. If my Panasonic FZ5 camera produced pictures like that I would be taking it back for a refund! The image looks as if it has had too much JPEG compression applied. What does the image look like when printed out and viewed at normal viewing distances? Viewing at 1:1 on a monitor may not be representative of the final viewing conditions. When adjusting sharpening, I would try and go for a value which produced no overshoots on light-grey to dark-grey edges, whilst retaining the edge width in the minimum number of pixels, although some people with CRT (or poorly adjusted) monitors might find such images "soft". Sadly, it may be that manufacturers think that purchasers of their ZLR cameras will be impressed by "sharp images with vibrant colours". Thanks goodness you can adjust this effect away. Cheers, David The FZ5 test pic I mentioned: http://www.cyberphoto.se/bildexempel/fz5/P1010017.JPG?PHPSESSID=92ec900f9b8a28b4 bbbe47aa221aa6fc > If my Panasonic FZ5 camera produced pictures like that I would be taking > it back for a refund! The image looks as if it has had too much JPEG [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Cheers, > David > The FZ5 test pic I mentioned: > http://www.cyberphoto.se/bildexempel/fz5/P1010017.JPG?PHPSESSID=92ec900f9b8a28b4 bbbe47aa221aa6fc Per, I believe this picture is showing heat haze, that's all. Where the hot atmosphere distorts images taken over hot surfaces (such as the road). Was it a hot day? Cheers, David >> The FZ5 test pic I mentioned: >> http://www.cyberphoto.se/bildexempel/fz5/P1010017.JPG?PHPSESSID=92ec900f9b8a28b4 bbbe47aa221aa6fc [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Cheers, > David I did not take those pics myself, they are from a camera shop home page. Early spring in Umeå, shloud not be a hot day anyway. But I feel that pics taken on a cloudy show less such jagged stuff than those taken when the sun is bright. I tend to believe it's a combination of heat haze, and the shortcomings of the image processors to handle that. >>> The FZ5 test pic I mentioned: >>> http://www.cyberphoto.se/bildexempel/fz5/P1010017.JPG?PHPSESSID=92ec900f9b8a28b4 bbbe47aa221aa6fc [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > I tend to believe it's a combination of heat haze, and the > shortcomings of the image processors to handle that. Well, perhaps not, but I've known it be very hot in Umeå when I've been there! I was trying to see what could cause the shape distortion in the objects, and heat-haze was the obvious cause. The effects are exaggerated when using a very long focal length (narrow field of view) which both the S2 IS and the FZ5 have. You really need indoor pictures to make judgements without the problems of atmospheric effects. Just for fun, here's a sample from my own Panasonic FZ5: ftp://ftp.blueyonder.co.uk/store1/incoming/GOES/2005-05-06-0953-28.jpg This was a hot day, at the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona. However, we were in the stands so the optical path was not immediately above a heated surface. Cheers, David |
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