7D Unsharp Mask

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barry priddis
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Recently read an excellent review by Les McClean about the 7D, and he mentioned that the raw images were a bit soft. Has anyone determined a good setting for unsharp mask in PS for this camera? The reason I ask is that I have found with my IdMk IIN the best setting for unsharp mask is Amount 300%, Radius 0.3 and Threshhold 0.
 
Have a look in the Help files in PS Barry, I don't use PS, but generally speaking you need different USM settings depending on whether your output is to a monitor or to print.

The other thing is you don't want to be looking at a 'one shot' USM setting for all images, as images will vary in the amount of sharpening they need anyway, but you ideally need very low USM settings and apply USM in small increments, which allows you fine control over any halos or sharpening artifacts appearing, in which case you can just undo the last USM step or two if need be.

I usually end up applying USM in several increments for best results. It might sound like a bit of a faff, but it isn't in practice. Obviously you should do your sharpening at the final output size of the image.
 
There's also a few different ways to apply sharpening too for different styles of images.
 
I generally start with a 105 or 110 percent usm and work from there. The 5dmkii and 24-70 combo needs very little usm to make the images jump from the screen.
 
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